A person, animal, or thing having the characteristics or qualities of two or more (esp. contrasting) others. Obsolete.
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释义 | the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > of incongruous elements (10) participle?a1475 A person, animal, or thing having the characteristics or qualities of two or more (esp. contrasting) others. Obsolete. mongrel1582 A thing of mixed or intermediate character; a mixture; a combination of two (or occasionally more) different things, qualities, etc. centaur1606 figurative. A person or thing likened to a centaur, or regarded as resembling a centaur in some way. Something formed from the combination of… mule1631 A hybrid. A person who or thing which is a hybrid in some way. Frequently attributive. crossc1796 figurative. An instance of the mixture of the characteristics of two different individuals; something intermediate in character between two things. half-and-halfc1814 Something that is half one thing and half another, or half this and half that. chimera1832 figurative with reference to the terrible character, the unreality, or the incongruous composition… An incongruous union or medley. half-breed1846 transf. and fig. hybrid1850 transferred and figurative. Anything derived from heterogeneous sources, or composed of different or incongruous elements; in Philology a compound… piebald1897 A piebald horse. Also figurative. |
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