-hybrids-

a. 1. Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains; as, plants of hybrid nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. derived by a mixture of characteristics from two distinctly different sources; as, a hybrid musical style; a hybrid DNA molecule. [ PJC ]

n. The state or quality of being hybrid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hybridizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hybridism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids. J. D. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hybridized p. pr. & vb. n. Hybridizing ] To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Biol.) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who hybridizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Hybrid. [ 1913 Webster ]