hybridization
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- n (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- England experienced another kind of hybridization.
- Men have long theorized over the hybridization of Hominidae and their cognate Catarrhini (turned-down noses) the Simiidae.
- Further interspecies hybridization has produced loldogs, lolbirds, lolhamsters, lolmice and--a little masterpiece of verbal economy--the tusked, amphibious lolrus.