Hybrid vs Variety - What's the difference?
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(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.
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The quality of being varied; diversity.
A specific variation of something.
A number of different things.
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(taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
(cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
(cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
(linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect, accent, register, etc. and to its prestige level.
The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying a given set of identities.
As nouns the difference between hybrid and variety
is that hybrid is offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains while variety is the quality of being varied; diversity.As an adjective hybrid
is consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components.hybrid
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