🔗 Combined parts ⚗️ A mixed substance 🧬 A mixed organism

combinant

9.9

A living cell or organism with genes from different sources

noun
/kəmˈbɪnənt/

Specialized

: híbrido

Researchers observed how the combinant displayed traits from both parent organisms.

Examples

The laboratory identified each combinant by analyzing its unique genetic markers.
After the experiment, the team compared the growth rates of every combinant produced.
A new combinant was found.
The combinant is thriving!
The laboratory identified each combinant by analyzing its unique genetic markers.
Researchers observed how the combinant displayed traits from both parent organisms.
After the experiment, the team compared the growth rates of every combinant produced.

Synonyms

hybrid

vscombinant

43 3.9

Something made by combining two different things or ideas

is limited to organisms or cells formed by combining genetic material

Antonyms

purebred

Specialized

11 4.6

Has parents and grandparents from the same family line without mixing with other animals

Surface Forms

combinant singular

combinants plural

Morphology

combinant = combine (transparent) = combine + ant

The biological sense is a nominal/participial extension of 'combine' + '-ant', meaning an entity produced by combining genetic material, which is a transparent extension.

Etymology

Combinant comes from combine, with com- meaning 'together' and the basic idea of joining parts. So in biology a combinant is a cell or organism made when genetic material from different sources is joined, which is why it shows traits from more than one parent.