Both Uses of
hybrid
in
Beastly
- I added additional beds and pots until there were hundreds of flowers, a dozen colors and more shapes, hybrid teas and climbing roses, purple cabbage roses the size of my outstretched hand, and miniatures barely the size of my thumbnail.†
Part 4
- They aren't as detailed as the hybrid tea roses.
Part 4 *hybrid = crossbred (from two other types of roses)
Definition:
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(hybrid) something of mixed originin 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)