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Definition: Crossbreed |
CrossbreedNoun1. An offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species. Verb1. Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CrossbreedSynonyms: hybrid (n), cross (v), hybridize (v), interbreed (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unconformity | Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crossbreed |
| English words defined with "crossbreed": Cornish ♦ Santa Gertrudis. (references) |
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| "Crossbreed" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Crossbreed" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crossbreed | 114 |
crossbreed lyrics | 11 |
crossbreed dog | 8 |
crossbreed pic | 5 |
crossbreed picture | 5 |
band crossbreed | 2 |
crossbreed tab | 2 |
crossbreed lion tiger | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crossbreed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hibridizoj, hibrid (cross, crossbred, hybrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهجن (cross, crossbred, mixed, mongrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хибрид (bastard, hybrid, mongrel, mule), кръстоска (grade), кръстосвам (cross, cruise, hybridize, intercross, intersect, mix, range, sweep, walk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 杂交繁育. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | míšenec (half breed, half caste), křížit (cut, hybridize), kříženec (bastard, cross, hybrid, mongrel), hybrid (bastard, hybrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | krydsningsafkom (crossbreed progeny), krydse (crossing, mating, to beat up to windward, to cross, to crossbreed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kruisen (cross, crucify, cruise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیوندزدن (Cross, Graft, Imp, Join), دورگه (Cross, Crossover, Hybrid, Mulatto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | risteyttää (cross, cross-fertilize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | croiser (crosier, cross, cruise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hybride (hybrid), halbblut (half caste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μιγάσ (half blood, half breed, half caste, hybrid, mestizo, mongrel, mulatto), διασταύρωση (cross, cross pollination, cross-fertilization, crossing, junction, traverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"כליא (crossfertilize, hybridize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | blaster. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | incrocio (cross, crossing, crossroad, crossroads, intersection, mongrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "の子 (derogatory person of mixed parentage), 合いの子 (Eurasian, hybrid, mulatto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あいの" (derogatory person of mixed parentage, Eurasian, hybrid, mulatto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 교잡하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ossbreedcray cruzar (cross, cruise, grade, hybridize, intersect, roam, traverse), cruzamento (concourse, criss-cross, crossing, crossroad, folding, frog, interlacement, lathing, network, turnabout, turning), raça cruzada, mestiço (mestizo, metis, mongrel, sambo), híbrido (crossbred, metis). (various references) скрещивать (cross, hybridize, interbreed). (various references) ukrstiti (cross, hybridize, interbreed, traverse), hibrid (cross, crossbred, hybrid). (various references) mezcla (admixture, adulterant, alloy, blend, blending, commixture, concoction, intermixture, mash, medley, melange, mishmash, mix, mixture), mestizo (crossbred, half breed, half caste, half-breed, mestizo, mongrel), híbrido (bastard, hybrid). (various references) korsning (cross, cross-breeding, crossing, half breed, hybrid, intersection, junction, mongrel), hybrid (hybrid), blandras (mixed-race, mongrel). (various references) melez elde etmek (intercross), melez canlı. (various references) схрещувати (cross, hybridize, interbreed), гідрид, помісь (bastard, mongrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crossbreed": crossbreeding, crossbreeds. (additional references) | |
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"Crossbreed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schrosbree. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-o-r-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: crossbred, recrossed. | |
-2 letters: bedsores, rescored, rescores, resorbed. | |
-3 letters: bedsore, borders, corders, crossed, crosser, desorbs, dorsers, dresser, rebored, rebores, recodes, records, recross, redress, reredos, rescore, resorbs, scorers, screeds, sobered, soberer. | |
-4 letters: border, borers, bossed, bredes, breeds, broses, ceders, cessed, coders, corder, corers, corses, credos, creeds, crores, crosse, decors, desorb, dorser, dosers, dosser, erodes, eroses, orders. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-e-o-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: crossbreeds. | |
+2 letters: cerebrosides. | |
+3 letters: crossbreeding, stockbreeders. | |
+4 letters: oversubscribed. | |
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