hybridise

[US]/'haibri,daiz/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

v. to hybridize
Word Forms
Past Participlehybridised
Past Tensehybridised
Present Participlehybridising
Third Person Singularhybridises
Pluralhybridises

Real-world Examples

When technology is changing in unpredictable ways, and jobs are hybridising, humans need to be able to pick up new skills.

Source: Dominance: Issue 2

So that with some species, certain abnormal individuals, and in other species all the individuals, can actually be hybridised much more readily than they can be fertilised by pollen from the same individual plant!

Source: On the Origin of Species

But to make the case sure, he would raise plants from his supposed hybridised seed, and he would find that the seedlings were miserably dwarfed and utterly sterile, and that they behaved in all other respects like ordinary hybrids.

Source: On the Origin of Species

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