hybridize

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hybridize - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hybridize \Hy"brid*i`ze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hybridized; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Hybridizing.]
     To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.
     [1913 Webster]

  Hybridize \Hy"brid*ize\, v. i. (Biol.)
     To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

hybridize - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hybridize
      v 1: breed animals or plants using parents of different races
           and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried
           crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed" [syn:
           crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise,
           interbreed]