Crossbreed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crossbreed \Cross"breed`\ (-br[=e]d`), n.
     1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different
        breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the
        qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things;
        a hybrid.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crossbreed
       n : 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; "a mule is a cross between a horse and
           a donkey" [syn: {hybrid}, {cross}]
       v : 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: {cross},
            {hybridize}, {hybridise}, {interbreed}]
       [also: {crossbred}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "crossbreed":
     Cape Colored, Eurasian, bastard, beget, breed, breed true, cattalo,
     citrange, copulate, cross, crossbred, engender, father, generate,
     get, griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-breed, half-caste,
     high yellow, hinny, hybrid, hybridize, inbreed, interbreed,
     intercross, ladino, liger, make love, mestee, mestiza, mestizo,
     metis, metisse, miscegenate, mixblood, mixed-blood, mongrel,
     mongrelize, mother, mulatto, mule, multiply, mustee, octoroon,
     outbreed, plumcot, procreate, proliferate, propagate, quadroon,
     quintroon, reproduce in kind, sambo, sire, tangelo, tigon, zebrass,
     zebrule