crossbreed

crossbreed is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.
2. noun. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
3. noun. (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

   "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey"

   Synonyms: cross, hybrid

4. verb. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

   "cross a horse and a donkey"

   "Mendel tried crossbreeding"

   Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed

Synonyms

cross, hybrid, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed

Common word forms

crossbreeds, crossbreeding

Words from these letters

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