hybridizing
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈhaɪbrɪˌdaɪzɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
hibridación
- Yet even as they facilitate cognitive slippage from one system to the next, the evangelicals' anti-syncretistic stance keeps much of this hybridizing activity below the level of conscious awareness.
- hybridizing daffodils
- years of hybridizing
Examples
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The history of the square illustrates European cultural dominance, itself a product of the colonial experience and the neocolonial influences overcome only in the twentieth century through a spontaneous creative fusion, a hybridizing with indigenous Brazilian elements.
Academic text (2000) -
Through hybridizing, scientists aim to produce animals that possess desirable traits for agriculture.
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Some crossbreeding, hybridizing... what have you.
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Hybridizing is not unknown in the history of the traditions we already have.
Academic text (1990) -
We focus on these hybridizing processes as ushered in by a federal program, the American Heritage River Initiative.
Academic text (2001) -
I do add that GMO in organic food is unacceptable and that conventional hybridizing of GMO food does not make the food non-GMO again.
Blog text (14) -
The heterogeneity may result from natural biological factors (e.g., hybridizing, incomplete lineage sorting) or artifactual problems (e.g., missing data).
Academic text (2010) -
One day, after years of patient hybridizing, brushing the pollen of one flower onto the stamen of another, waiting for the seeds to ripen, planting them, and cultivating them, he discovered a magnificent white bloom, perfect in form, wafting its fragrance throughout the garden.
Academic text (1997) -
The gardener spent years hybridizing different rose varieties to create new colors and fragrances.
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Hybridizing diverse plant species can lead to the development of unique and resilient crops.
Synonyms
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5.9
An offspring of two different breeds or varieties
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7.2
Breeding two different plants or animals to make a hybrid
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6.2
Animals or plants from different groups produce mixed young
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6.1
Breeding two different plants or animals to make offspring with mixed traits
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4.4
Mixing different kinds of animals or plants to make young with chosen traits
A process in which different breeds or groups mate to make hybrid young
Mixing different breeds to make animals or plants with mixed traits
A process of making something new by joining two different species or languages
How Mixed
- Specialized
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9.3
- Specialized
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6.3
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4.4
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hybridizing comes from hybrid, from the old Latin hybrida meaning 'mixed offspring'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of making a 'mix' or a 'cross' between two different plants or animals, which is exactly what hybridizing means.