Crossbred

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  • adjective. Produced by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Produced by crossbreeding; bred from different species or varieties; hybrid; mongrel.
  • noun. In biology, the offspring produced by the crossing of parents which exhibit antagonistic or mutually exclusive characters, such as blackness and whiteness, tall-ness and shortness, which do not blend.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
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  • adjective. Produced by breeding from two breeds, varieties or species.
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of crossbreed.
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  • adjective. bred from parents of different varieties or species
    • Word Usage
    "He just sat there, with an expression crossbred between reverence and desire, whenever some big old gal got up to shake and shimmy."
    Equivalent
    bigeneric  half-blooded  half-bred  half-breed  hybrid  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Yorkshire  basset  bottle-fed  foolishest  gallous  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hybrid  mongrel  
    verb-stem
    crossbreed  
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