| 单词 | hybrid |
| 释义 | hybrid (once / 994 pages) nadj A hybrid is a mixture of two different things, resulting in something that has a little bit of both — like the rare zedonk, a hybrid of a donkey and a zebra. The word hybrid gets thrown around often these days — ever heard of hybrid cars that run on both electricity and fuel? Or hybrid films that are half animation, half live action? But hybrid is really most at home in the realm of genetics and crossbreeding. It actually comes to us from the Latin hybrida, meaning the offspring of two dissimilar animals, specifically a tame sow and a wild boar. WORD FAMILYhybrid: hybridise, hybridize, hybrids+/hybridise: hybridisation, hybridising/hybridization: hybridizations/hybridize: hybridization, hybridized, hybridizing USAGE EXAMPLESMr Younger also warned that "hybrid warfare", which included cyber-attacks and subverting democracy, was becoming an "increasingly dangerous phenomenon". BBC(Jan 01, 2017) Naturally, with all that power, unlike today’s energy-efficient hybrids, these cars are among the greatest gas guzzlers in automotive history. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) And solo drivers who bought their way into the HOV lanes by purchasing hybrids will lose their exemption. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a composite of mixed origin the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices Hyper complex, composite a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts 2n (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species Syn|Hypo|Hyper cross, crossbreed dihybrid a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each monohybrida hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) being, organism a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently 3n a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) Syn|Hyper loan-blend, loanblend word a unit of language that native speakers can identify 4adj produced by crossbreeding Syn intercrossed crossbred bred from parents of different varieties or species |
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