Mongrel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An animal or a plant resulting from various interbreedings, especially a dog of mixed or undetermined breed.
  • n. A cross between different breeds, groups, or varieties, especially a mixture that is or appears to be incongruous.
  • adj. Of mixed origin or character.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin; especially, a dog that is such.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.
  • adj. Not of a pure breed.
  • adj. Of mixed kinds.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An individual or a breed of animals resulting from repeated crossing or mixture of several different varieties; the progeny of varieties, and especially of artificial varieties, as distinguished from the hybrid, or cross between two different species (but the distinction is not always observed).
  • n. Specifically, a dog of mixed breed.
  • n. Anything of mixed breed; anything that is a mixture of incongruous elements.
  • Of a mixed or impure breed; begotten or made up of different kinds: usually in a disreputable sense.
  • To make mongrel; mongrelize.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
  • n. derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
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