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HYBRID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Example:
a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey
Synonyms:
cross; crossbreed; hybrid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hybrid" is a kind of...):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hybrid"):
dihybrid (a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each)
monohybrid (a 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))
Derivation:
hybrid (produced by crossbreeding)
hybridize (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A composite of mixed origin
Example:
the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hybrid" is a kind of...):
complex; composite (a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts)
Derivation:
hybridize (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., 'monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
Synonyms:
hybrid; loan-blend; loanblend
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hybrid" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Domain category:
Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)
Domain region:
Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Produced by crossbreeding
Synonyms:
hybrid; intercrossed
Classified under:
Similar:
crossbred (bred from parents of different varieties or species)
Derivation:
hybrid ((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)
Context examples:
The New Zealand hybrid is commonly utilized in biomedical research, in a variety of studies including developmental toxicity studies, toxicology studies, asthma research, and antibody production.
(New Zealand Hybrid Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)
A hybrid polar-planar compound with potential antineoplastic activity that induces terminal differentiation, inhibits cell growth, and causes apoptosis in several tumor cell lines.
(Hexamethylene Bisacetamide, NCI Thesaurus)
N-glycans thus synthesized are classified into three types: high-mannose type, complex type, and hybrid type.
(N-Glycan Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
A cell-based cancer vaccine consisting of hybrid cells created by electrofusing allogeneic dendritic cells (DCs) and autologous lymphoma cells with potential immunostimulating and antitumor activities.
(Autologous Lymphoma Cell/Allogeneic Dendritic Cell Electrofusion Hybrid Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
The BALB/c mouse develops plasmacytomas upon injection with mineral oil, which form the mouse cell component of the mouse-human hybrid cells that are used in the production of monoclonal antibodies.
(BALB/c Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)
Hybrid hepatocytes represent not only the most effective way to repair a diseased liver, but also the safest way to prevent fatal liver failure by cell transplantation.
(Newly discovered cells restore liver damage in mice without cancer risk, NIH)
Researchers with NASA’s Cassini mission found evidence of a toxic hybrid ice in a wispy cloud high above the south pole of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
(NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan, NASA)
A Chinese company has unveiled a driverless bus-train hybrid that uses white lines painted on the road to navigate.
(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)
When a hybrid between the two species was introduced, the male would most commonly show a preference for a mate with similar markings to itself.
(Butterflies are genetically wired to choose a mate that looks just like them, University of Cambridge)
They found that some hybrids were more sensitive to ozone stress than others.
(Study finds rising ozone a hidden threat to corn, National Science Foundation)
