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hy·brid  (hbrd)
n.
1. Genetics The offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock, especially the offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties, species, or races.
2.
a. Something of mixed origin or composition, such as a word whose elements are derived from different languages.
b. Something having two kinds of components that produce the same or similar results, such as a vehicle powered by both an electric motor and an internal combustion engine as sources of power for the drive train.
[Latin hibrida, hybrida, mongrel.]
hybrid·ism n.
hybrid·ist n.
hy·bridi·ty (h-brd-t) n.
hybridism, hybridity
the blending of diverse cultures or traditions.
See also: Anthropology


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But until the business was liquidated in 2004 due to the terrorism-induced tourism slump, the visitors who bought it all and the government ministers, ambassadors, and aid experts who were frequently photographed looking at it were not academic specialists and happily embraced the flashiness and hybridity.
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IN AN AGE IN WHICH TECHNOLOGY is encouraging and enabling musical, cultural and political cominglings, it is at once strange and fitting that the tension around hybridity in most every genre of American popular music would continue to exist and exert itself.
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