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Hybridise

verb
1.
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.  Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridize, interbreed.  "Mendel tried crossbreeding" , "These species do not interbreed"






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"Hybridise" Quotes from Famous Books



... hybridising not that part which it is properly adapted to affect, namely the ovule, but the partially developed tissues of a distinct individual. We are thus brought half-way towards a graft-hybrid, in which the cellular tissue of one form, instead of its pollen, is believed to hybridise the tissues of a distinct form. I formerly assigned reasons for rejecting the belief that the mother-plant is affected through the intervention of the hybridised embryo; but even if this view were admitted, the case would become one ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin

... present; at first he had only one, now, of course, he has a few more; when he has got enough he will hybridise. You don't know what that is. Cross-breed with it; use the blue with the old yellow daffodil as parents to new varieties. That's ticklish work; growers can't afford to do it till they have a fair number of the new sort; ...
— The Good Comrade • Una L. Silberrad



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