'Crossbreed' definitions:
Definition of 'crossbreed'
(from WordNet)
noun
(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; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" [syn: hybrid, crossbreed, cross]
verb
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed" [syn: crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed]
Definition of 'Crossbreed'
From: GCIDE
- Crossbreed \Cross"breed`\ (-br[=e]d`), n.
- 1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crossbreed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bastard,
- beget,
- breed,
- breed true,
- Cape Colored,
- cattalo,
- citrange,
- copulate,
- cross,
- crossbred,
- engender,
- Eurasian,
- father,
- generate,
- get,
- griffe,
- half blood,
- half-bred,
- half-breed,
- half-caste,
- high yellow,
- hinny,
- hybrid,
- hybridize,
- inbreed,
- interbreed,
- intercross,
- ladino,
- liger,
- make love,
- mestee,
- mestiza,
- mestizo,
- metis,
- metisse,
- miscegenate,
- mixblood,
- mixed-blood,
- mongrel,
- mongrelize,
- mother,
- mulatto,
- mule,
- multiply,
- mustee,
- octoroon,
- outbreed,
- plumcot,
- procreate,
- proliferate,
- propagate,
- quadroon,
- quintroon,
- reproduce in kind,
- sambo,
- sire,
- tangelo,
- tigon,
- zebrass,
- zebrule