hybridise

Other forms of hybridise

past tense

hybridised·

present participle

hybridising·

third person

hybridises·

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 hybridise

What does hybridise mean?

hybridise means "breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties".

How many syllables are in hybridise?

hybridise has 3 syllables and divides as hy-bri-dise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hybridise?

Close synonyms include crossbreed, cross, hybridize, interbreed. 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 hybridise a common word?

hybridise 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.