Hybrid

[Lat. hybrid a; allied to Gr. hybris, a piece of wanton violence, an outrage, i. e., what is insulting to nature.] A mongrel produced, whether in plants or animals, by the impregnation of the female of one species, genus, or race, by the male belonging to a different family. The commonest sorts of H. are those which arise from the interconnection of different varieties of the same species; to notice which, the product of the wild boar and the domestic sow (see Hog) need only be mentioned. It is stated that specifical hybrids have been produced from the artificial fertilization, by Kalreuter, of the Nicoti ana rustic a with the pollen of Nicotiana parriculata; and Schiek has demonstrated, by numerous observations, that a multitude of plants produce specifical hybrids in a state of nature. Among mammal i a, however, although hybrids have been produced, they are not very common, although some have been obtained from the intermixture of the lion and tiger, the dog and wolf, and the horse and a , the latter being extremely useful, and termed "the mule." Hybrids are generally sterile, and the intermixture of different species, according to Owen, is guarded against by the aversion of two specifically different individuals to sexual union. -A mongrel; produced from the mixture of two species. Hybridism, or HYBRIDISM, n. State of being the offspring of two species. Hybrid'ity, n. Quality of being hybrid; hybridism. Hybridizable, a . That is able to produce hybrids. Hybridize, v. a . To procreate by the mixture of two different species; to propagate mongrels or mules. Hybridous, a. Mongrel; hybrid. Hyca'tu, a town of Brazil. See ICATU. Hycoo'tee, in N. Carolina , a small river flowing into the Dan River from Caswell có.