| n. | 1. | (Biol.) The offspring of the union of two animals or plants derived from recognizably different genetic lines, as two distinct species, or two strains of the same species with known genetic differences; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two genetic lines. See Mongrel. |
| 2. | (Philol.) A word composed of elements which belong to different languages. | |
| 3. | anything derived by a mixture of components or characteristics from two distinctly different sources; | |
| a. | 1. | Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains; |
| 2. | derived by a mixture of characteristics from two distinctly different sources; |
| Noun | 1. | hybrid - a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) Synonyms: loan-blend, loanblend |
| 2. | hybrid - a composite of mixed origin; "the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices" | |
| 3. | hybrid - an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" Synonyms: crossbreed, cross | |
| Adj. | 1. | hybrid - produced by crossbreeding |
| Hybrid - A concurrent object-oriented language. ["Active Objects in Hybrid", O.M. Nierstrasz, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):243-253 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987)]. |