Thesaurus:hybrid

Thesaurus

hybrid

English

Noun

Sense: offspring from parents of two different kinds (usually different species)

Synonyms

• cross
• cross-breed
• hybrid
• melding
• mixling
• mongrel

Hyponyms

Plants

• grapefruit (pomelo × orange)
• peppermint (spearmint × watermint)
• pluot (plum × apricot)
• tangelo (tangerine × grapefruit and/or pomelo)
• triticale (wheat × rye)

Animals

• beefalo (cattle × American bison)
• Bengal (cat × female leopard cat)
• blynx (bobcat × lynx)
• cattelo (cattle × buffalo)
• coydog (male coyote × female dog)
• dogote (female coyote × male dog)
• dzo (yak × cattle)
• hinny (male horse × female donkey)
• huarizo (male llama × female alpaca)
• liger (male lion × female tiger)
• mulard (male of a domestic variety of mallard × female muscovy)
• mule (female horse × male donkey)
• Savanna (serval × cat)
• tiglon (male tiger × female lion)
• wolfdog (wolf × dog)
• yakalo (yak × American bison)
• zedonk (zebra × donkey)
• zonkey (zebra × donkey)
• zorse (zebra × horse)
• zubron (wisent × cow)

Hypernyms

• mixture    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• child    [⇒ thesaurus]
• offspring
• youngling    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “41. mixture” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “hybrid” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.