1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Hybridize

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To produce or cause to produce hybrids; crossbreed.

v. To form base pairs between complementary regions of (two strands of DNA that were not originally paired).

v. to cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids

v. to construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages

v. to combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals

v. to combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules

v. To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

verb-intransitive. To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.

To cause to interbreed and thus produce hybrids.

Hence—2. To form or construct in a hybrid manner, as words.

To produce a hybrid or hybrids; cross or interbreed, as two different varieties or species of plants or animals.

Also spelled hybridise.

v. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

"They have taken the next step to hybridize key elements of Facebook and Wikipedia and are executing on it very well so far."

hybridized hybridizes hybridizing

Words that are more generic or abstract

breed

backcross

hybridized hybridizing

Words with the same meaning

interbreed cross