hybridism

[ hahy-bri-diz-uh m ]

/ ˈhaɪ brɪˌdɪz əm /

Also hy·brid·i·ty

[hahy-brid-i-tee] /haɪˈbrɪd ɪ ti/. the quality or condition of being hybrid.

the production of hybrids.

Origin of hybridism

First recorded in 1835–45; hybrid + -ism

To add them to words of other than of Greek origin is to be guilty of hybridism.

The English Language |Robert Gordon Latham
Mme. Clmence Royer called attention to the importance of hybridism in the genesis of crime.

The Criminal |Havelock Ellis
Coast peoples tend to show something more than the hybridism resulting from the mingling of two stocks.

Influences of Geographic Environment |Ellen Churchill Semple
In a future chapter we shall see that this doctrine throws much light on the difficult subject of Hybridism.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. |Charles Darwin

Pangenesis does not throw much light on Hybridism, but agrees well with most of the ascertained facts.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) |Charles Darwin