hybridize
verb (used with object)
to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
hybridizer
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a word derived from
hybridize.
Example Sentences
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A key to Mr. Barnes’s books is that in style as well as form he is a hybridizer, able to combine seemingly contrary temperaments into a single writing voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
For instance, Barbra Streisand, a fragrant mauve rose bred by then-Weeks Roses hybridizer Tom Carruth, is still selling strong more than 20 years after it was introduced in 2001, Bifano said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
This is why, when you visit the garden of a fellow daffodil worshiper, to ask the name of a cultivar is also to get the name of the hybridizer.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2015
It’s on “The Whippoorwill,” the third album by Mr. Starr’s band Blackberry Smoke, a group of largely unreconstructed Southern rock revivalists signed to Southern Ground, the label founded by the country-rock jam-band hybridizer Zac Brown.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2012
For the hybridizer naming and introducing new hybrids to cultivation, the Code is more helpful than any previous set of rules and the needs of hybridizers of various groups have been considered.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association
