NOUN
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
How To Use hybridizing In A Sentence
- Burbank spent seventeen years hybridizing the common oxeye daisy with the English daisy, the German daisy, and the small but brilliantly white Japanese daisy. Jane S. Smith: Daisies, Weddings, and Making the Ideal Real
- Wheat is actually the result of three grasses hybridising, and was a two-step process.
- In 1917 Stead was given seeds of the North American varieties and began experimenting with hybridising them.
- The hybridizing scenario would suggest that all the forests of the continent may suddenly be at risk.
- Large-flowered modern varieties are the result of hybridising the wild pansy, viola tricolor, also known as love-in-idleness, kiss-me-quick and heartsease.
- The variation of plant hormones and ethylene releasing rate in rape treated by a new chemical hybridizing agent WP were studied.
- Hybridising the two species will reduce the red to orange.
- Though cross-breeding or hybridizing sometimes diminishes a tulip's ability to ‘perennialize, ‘other times it enhances this ability.
- Plant collectors are busy experimenting with and hybridizing these species.
- Even the term superweed goes back at least to 1949, in a book on hybridizing plant species.
