Hy"brid, a. Produced from the
mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.
Hy"brid (?), n. (Philol.) A
word composed of elements which belong to different
languages.
Hy"brid (?), n. [L. hybrida,
hibrida, prob. allied to Gr. ? wantonness (as if unbridled,
lawless, unnatural), perh. akin to Gr. "ype`r over, E.
over: cf. F. hybride.] (Biol.) The
offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant
produced from the mixture of two species. See
Mongrel.