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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hybridize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Moreover, some type C strains having lost the capacity to produce beta-toxin failed to hybridize with the IS1151 probe.
▪ The hybridizing scenario would suggest that all the forests of the continent may suddenly be at risk.
▪ The membranes were then hybridized by standard procedures for 16 hours at 42°C, using the biotinylated cDNA probe.
▪ Wheat descends from three grasses that hybridized on the Anatolian steppes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hybridize

Hybridize \Hy"brid*i`ze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hybridized; p. pr. & vb. n. Hybridizing.] To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

Hybridize

Hybridize \Hy"brid*ize\, v. i. (Biol.) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.

Wiktionary
hybridize

alt. 1 (context transitive English) to cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids 2 (context intransitive English) to produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed 3 (context transitive English) to construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages 4 (context physics English) to combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals 5 (context biochemistry English) to combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules vb. 1 (context transitive English) to cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids 2 (context intransitive English) to produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed 3 (context transitive English) to construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages 4 (context physics English) to combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals 5 (context biochemistry English) to combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules

WordNet
hybridize

v. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed" [syn: crossbreed, cross, hybridise, interbreed]

Usage examples of "hybridize".

Using selective genen techniques on the silicon life forms, methodologists were able to produce a small number of hybridized razor rocks for meteor-blade use.

Similarly, while a wild apple species and a wild grape species were domesticated in Eurasia, there are many related wild apple and grape species in North America, some of which have in modern times been hybridized with the crops derived from their wild Eurasian counterparts in order to improve those crops.

We know from Sumerian and later depictions that onagers were regularly hunted, as well as captured and hybridized with donkeys and horses.

Ramesh's mouth moved, and words came from the speaker—the fitness board proceedings, as hybridized and channeled by Annika Pedersen.

Except for the first few seconds, he'd had little difficulty with its hybridized content.

Sirhan has finally integrated the memories from the partials they hybridized earlier.

The tissue of their hybridized brains was of the same visceral matter as the human brain, but the fifteen million neurons that formed the basic wiring operated a bit differently in the processing of information.

The large kernels were from a highly developed, perhaps even artificially hybridized, variety of corn.

They were reports on rose hybridizing dating back over the last ten years.

Humans died by the droves, taking the elves with them as their practice of bolstering their numbers by hybridizing with humanity backfired.

It was believed their practice of hybridizing with humans to bolster their numbers backfired, making them susceptible to the Angel virus.

Yes, we have now domesticated pecans as a nut tree and blueberries as a fruit, and we have improved some Eurasian fruit crops (apples, plums, grapes, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries) by hybridizing them with North American wild relatives.

But there were many that were new and astounding to him, the Bat Dance masks, terrifying bat-winged heads that all were minglings of bat characters and other animals, bat-fish, bat-coyote, bat-owl, bat-squirrel, and some that were unidentifiable except for the weird outspread rubbery wings, bats hybridized with creatures of another world, perhaps.

So natural selection penalizes any predilection, on the part of individuals on either side, towards hybridizing with the other species or even race.

They were mostly self-pollinating: that is, the crop varieties could pollinate themselves and pass on their own desirable genes unchanged, instead of having to hybridize with other varieties less useful to humans.