Associations to the word «Hybridize»

Wiktionary

HYBRIDIZE, verb. (transitive) to cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids
HYBRIDIZE, verb. (intransitive) to produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed
HYBRIDIZE, verb. (transitive) to construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages
HYBRIDIZE, verb. (physics) to combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals
HYBRIDIZE, verb. (biochemistry) to combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules

Dictionary definition

HYBRIDIZE, verb. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats