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Hybrid vs Cultivated - What's the difference?

hybrid | cultivated |

As adjectives the difference between hybrid and cultivated

is that hybrid is consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components while cultivated is (of a person) cultured, refined, educated.

As a noun hybrid

is (biology) offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, eg two different species or two purebred parent strains.

As a verb cultivated is

(cultivate).

hybrid

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia hybrid)
  • (biology) Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
  • Something of mixed origin or composition.
  • A word whose elements are derived from different languages.
  • Short for hybrid vehicle (especially a car), one that runs on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
  • (golf) A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.
  • Synonyms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components.
  • See also

    * transgenic * cultivar

    References

    * hybrid, page 216, chapter: A Miscegenation Vocabulary in Interracialism, Terms from the Oxford English Dictionary, book: Black White Intermarriage in Americal History, Literature and Law, Edited by Werner Sollor, Oxford University Press, 2000 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tggfcZQyofAC&pg=PA216&dq=minton+warren+hybrida&client=firefox-a
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    cultivated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cultivate)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a person) cultured, refined, educated
  • (of a plant) grown by cultivation (not wild)
  • (of land) farmed
  • Synonyms

    * See also