crossbreed

Other forms of crossbreed

plural

crossbreeds·

past tense or participle

crossbred

present participle

crossbreeding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crossbreed

What does crossbreed mean?

crossbreed means "(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crossbreed?

crossbreed has 2 syllables: cross-breed. The stress falls on "cross".

What is another word for crossbreed?

Close synonyms include hybrid, cross, cross, hybridize, hybridise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crossbreed a common word?

crossbreed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.