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Hybridizing

noun
1.
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids.  Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding.



Hybridize

verb
(past & past part. hybridized; pres. part. hybridizing)
1.
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.  Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed.  "Mendel tried crossbreeding" , "These species do not interbreed"






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"Hybridizing" Quotes from Famous Books



... "By hybridizing and other methods, we are striving to increase the hardiness of the former and the crystallizing-sugar product of the latter. By the results already obtained we are encouraged to believe, that five years hence, we shall have produced a sugar-cane equal to the ...
— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson

... seems to me that we have reached the point where further improvement in nuts for cultivation is to be looked for especially from purposeful hybridizing by man. It should be another of the chief aims of this association to induce self-perpetuating institutions to get together the material necessary for such work. Such material already exists in incomplete form—incomplete, that is, especially in horticultural ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Sixth Annual Meeting. Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 • Various



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