hybridize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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to produce hybrids.
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to cause the production of hybrids by crossing.
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to form a double-stranded nucleic acid of two single strands of DNA or RNA, or one of each, by allowing the base pairs of the separate strands to form complementary bonds.
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to fuse two cells of different genotypes into a hybrid cell.
verb
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to produce or cause to produce hybrids; crossbreed
Other Word Forms
- hybridist noun
- hybridizable adjective
- hybridization noun
- hybridizer noun
- interhybridize verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of hybridize
Example Sentences
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One potential advantage to lice as markers of human migrations is that the parasites can hybridize even if their human hosts do not, Pedersen notes.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 7, 2023
The message being that if you’re going to hybridize, do it with the best.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2022
But when different species hybridize, beneficial genes that have evolved in one species can, through mating with the hybrid, migrate to the other species in the blink of an evolutionary eye.
From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2022
CBS’s grandfather of news magazines isn’t going anywhere, but it is facing competition from the likes of Vice News and even Frontline and other outlets that hybridize online reporting with a TV presence.
From Salon • May 26, 2019
They were mostly self-pollinating: that is, the crop varieties could pollinate themselves and pass on their own desirable genes unchanged, instead of having to hybridize with other varieties less useful to humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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