Hybrid vs. Purebred

Hybridnoun

(biology) Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.

Hybridnoun

Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.

Hybridnoun

(linguistics) A word whose elements are derived from different languages.

Hybridnoun

A hybrid vehicle (especially a car), one that runs on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).

Hybridnoun

(cycling) A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike.

Hybridnoun

(golf) A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.

Hybridnoun

An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.

Hybridnoun

A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer.

Hybridadjective

Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components.

Hybridnoun

The offspring of the union of two animals or plants derived from recognizably different genetic lines, as two distinct species, or two strains of the same species with known genetic differences; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two genetic lines. See Mongrel.

Hybridnoun

A word composed of elements which belong to different languages.

Hybridnoun

anything derived by a mixture of components or characteristics from two distinctly different sources; as, a musical hybrid; a DNA-RNA hybrid.

Hybridadjective

Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains; as, plants of hybrid nature.

Hybridadjective

derived by a mixture of characteristics from two distinctly different sources; as, a hybrid musical style; a hybrid DNA molecule.

Hybridnoun

a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)

Hybridnoun

a composite of mixed origin;

Hybridnoun

an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species;

Hybridadjective

produced by crossbreeding

Purebredadjective

Having genuine parents of the same breed, usually of an animal.

Purebrednoun

An animal which has genuine parents of the same breed.

Purebrednoun

a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses

Purebredadjective

bred for many generation from member of a recognized breed or strain

Purebred

Purebreds, also called purebreeds, are (cultivars) of an animal species achieved through the process of selective breeding. When the lineage of a purebred animal is recorded, that animal is said to be pedigreed.