CROSSBREED (crossbred)

 Dictionary entry overview: What does crossbreed mean? 

• CROSSBREED (noun)
  The noun CROSSBREED has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CROSSBREED used as a noun is very rare.

• CROSSBREED (verb)
  The verb CROSSBREED has 1 sense:

1. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

  Familiarity information: CROSSBREED used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSSBREED (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

crossbreed; hybrid; cross

Context example:

a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey

Hypernyms ("crossbreed" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crossbreed"):

crossbred (a hybrid (especially an animal produced by a cross between two pure breeds))

dihybrid (a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each)

monohybrid (a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas))

• CROSSBREED (verb)

Meaning:

Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crossbreed; hybridise; hybridize; interbreed; cross

Context examples:

cross a horse and a donkey / Mendel tried crossbreeding / these species do not interbreed

Hypernyms (to "crossbreed" is one way to...):

breed (cause to procreate (animals))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something