hybridize
Americanverb (used with object)
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hybridizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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hybridized,
past participle, past
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hybridizing
present participle
verb (used without object)
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hybridizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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hybridized,
past participle, past
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hybridizing
present participle
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to produce hybrids.
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to cause the production of hybrids by crossing.
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to form a double-stranded nucleic acid of two single strands of DNA or RNA, or one of each, by allowing the base pairs of the separate strands to form complementary bonds.
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to fuse two cells of different genotypes into a hybrid cell.
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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hybridistnoun
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hybridizationnoun
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hybridizernoun
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interhybridizeverb (used without object)
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hybridizableadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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hybridizesimple
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hybridizessimple
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have hybridizedperfect
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has hybridizedperfect
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am hybridizingprogressive
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are hybridizingprogressive
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is hybridizingprogressive
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have been hybridizingperfect progressive
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has been hybridizingperfect progressive
Past
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hybridizedsimple
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had hybridizedperfect
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was hybridizingprogressive
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were hybridizingprogressive
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had been hybridizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of hybridize
Example Sentences
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One potential advantage to lice as markers of human migrations is that the parasites can hybridize even if their human hosts do not, Pedersen notes.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2023
Raymond Yoshimura would go on to hybridize several plants, including the Mission Bell azalea that became a popular draw for the nursery, Swanton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
But when different species hybridize, beneficial genes that have evolved in one species can, through mating with the hybrid, migrate to the other species in the blink of an evolutionary eye.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2022
CBS’s grandfather of news magazines isn’t going anywhere, but it is facing competition from the likes of Vice News and even Frontline and other outlets that hybridize online reporting with a TV presence.
From Salon ● May 26, 2019
They were mostly self-pollinating: that is, the crop varieties could pollinate themselves and pass on their own desirable genes unchanged, instead of having to hybridize with other varieties less useful to humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The author hybridizes many forms of nonfiction to explore questions people have been asking about war for centuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022
“Where there’s love overflowing” hybridizes the White Cube and the Black Box — the normative settings for fine art and avant-garde theater, respectively.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
"Homecoming" hybridizes the concert film with a backstage exploration of intellectual consciousness.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2021
Some knotweed hybridizes and evolves, but much of it does not change.
From Slate ● May 8, 2019
It freely hybridizes with all other chestnut species and varieties that have been tried, and forms the basis of the most hopeful work in breeding for disease-resistance that has yet been attempted.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association
In this and other ways, the hybridized Crosstrek is not so much different but comprehensively improved: more refined, responsive and meaningfully more fuel efficient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Ben Hania’s last film was another bold meshing of the factual and the fictionalized, the hybridized Oscar-nominated documentary “Four Daughters,” in which a real Tunisian family processes personal tragedy through role-playing for the director’s camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
The unplanned release in recent decades of giant salamanders from China has resulted in a rising number of hybridized animals of Japanese and Chinese descent.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Abe’s focused approach to pleats and her hybridized design techniques have continued to evolve, maintaining Sacai’s position at the forefront of Japan’s fashion vanguard.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
We know from Sumerian and later depictions that onagers were regularly hunted, as well as captured and hybridized with donkeys and horses.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
As the pre-war avant-garde’s celebration of image-breaking, violent spectacle and weird hybridizing became muddy reality in the field, the amateurs outstripped the professionals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
And for anyone who wants a step-by-step lesson in hybridizing roses, this one’s definitely for you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
Miller has introduced dozens of begonias from his own hybridizing work, and another breeder even named one in his honor.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
But hybridizing is the long game, and if breeders work on them, they may become as pretty as white daffodils with sumptuous pink- and rose-colored cups.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2021
Using a different method, Jorge Mora-Urpi, one of Clement’s collaborators, concluded that Indians might have bred the modern peach palm by hybridizing palms from several areas, including the Peruvian Amazon.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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