hybridize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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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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Some can still hybridize today to produce viable offspring.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024
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
As grizzly bears move north, for example, they are beginning to hybridize with polar bears, challenging "our cultural notions of discrete species and stable ecosystems."
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2021
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
Ingalls’s work hybridizes classical literature and mid-century Americana.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
It hybridizes readily with the Autumnal Marrow and kindred sorts, and is kept pure with considerable difficulty.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing
Among fast cars, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X—a hybridized, 1,250-hp monster—debuts with a price tag starting just over 200 grand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Singer demonstrates himself to be a mad scientist of celluloid sensation, creating a hybridized monster of influences, images, sounds and emotions that you won’t soon forget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
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
Today, most hellebores on nursery shelves are the product of complex hybridizing — as is evident in their alphabet soup nomenclature — resulting in larger, sometimes double, outward-facing flowers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
Fatalism and perseverance have been reliable themes for this New Jersey native, whose bright ideas about hybridizing rap and pop once provided some necessary sparkle to Kanye West’s dimmest album, 2018’s “Ye.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022
The conceit of Scorpion as a double album, one half emphasizing rap and the other R&B, may be conceptually conservative for an artist who made his bones hybridizing the two forms.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018
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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