Meaning

8 senses
  1. Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.

    Blendling, Mischling, Kreuzling

    гибри́дgibríd, по́месьpómesʹ

    гібри́дhibrýd

    (genetics) 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

  2. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.

    a composite of mixed origin

  3. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.

    A hybrid vehicle, especially a car; a vehicle that runs on both fuel (gasoline or diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).

    Hybridfahrzeug

  4. A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer.

  5. A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike.

  6. An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.

  7. A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.

  8. A word that is internally macaronic, its elements being derived from different languages.

    Bastardwort, Hybridwort, hybrides Wort

    гибри́дgibríd

    a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., ‘monolingual’ has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)

Examples

37 sentences
  1. Tom bought a hybrid.

    Том купив гібидне авто. — deniko

  2. This is a hybrid.

    Це гібрид. — deniko

    ruЭто гибрид. — Selena777

  3. Tom bought a hybrid car.

    Том купив гібридне авто. — deniko

    ruТом купил гибридный автомобиль. — corvard

    deTom hat sich ein Hybridfahrzeug zugelegt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Do you drive a hybrid car?

  5. You could at least buy a hybrid.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding:
Русский
By meaning 1
something of mixed origin:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding:
car that runs on both fuel and electricity:
word derived from different languages:

Origin

From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, an offspring of a tame

From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, an offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”). Attested since 1601, but rare before c. 1850.

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Forms

plural: hybrids
Singularhybrid
Pluralhybrids

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (genetics) 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:crossbreedcross
  • a car which runs on two power sources, usually an internal combustion engine and an electronic motor:hybrid car
  • a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., ‘monolingual’ has a Greek prefix and a Latin root):loanblendloan-blend

Word family

30 related words

See also

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