All 4 Uses of
hybrid
in
Immortal in Death
- Murders happened everywhere, but Soho was an arty bastion for the young and struggling who more often debated their disagreements over tiny glasses of cheap wine or cups of cafe Oil, watercolor, and compu artists hawked their wares on corners and in storefronts, competing with food vendors who promised hybrid fruits, iced yogurts, or vegetable purees uncontaminated by preservatives.†
Chpt 1hybrid = something of mixed origin
- Give me a good hybrid any day.†
Chpt 14 *
- "An experimental hybrid," Engrave explained.†
Chpt 14
- Your lab didn't hook into it because the hybrid's on the horticultural colonies' restricted list, and puts it under Galactic Customs' jurisdiction.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
something made by combining different sources or types
in various senses, including:
- of cars -- powered by both electricity and gasoline
- in biology -- a plant or animal produced by crossbreeding
- in linguistics -- a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., monolingual has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)