Both Uses of
hybrid
in
The Tipping Point
- One of the most famous diffusion studies is Bruce Ryan and Neal Gross's analysis of the spread of hybrid seed corn in Greene County, Iowa, in the 1930s.†
Chpt 6 *hybrid = something of mixed origin
- In the language of diffusion research, the handful of farmers who started trying hybrid seed at the very beginning of the 1930s were the Innovators, the adventurous ones.†
Chpt 6
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)