hybrid
Noun
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referred to in: latin - any dialect of the language of ancient Romedomain region: ellas, greece, hellenic republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oilis a type of: word - a unit of language that native speakers can identifysame as: loan-blend, loanblend
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referred to in: genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organismsis a type of: being, organism - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independentlysubtypes:
- dihybrid - a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each
- monohybrid - a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas)
same as: cross, crossbreed
Adjective
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similar to: crossbred - bred from parents of different varieties or speciessame as: intercrossed
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