(biology) The formation of a new species as the direct result of hybridization between members of two existing species.

A computer that features the best characteristics of the analog computer and digital computer.

An automobile powered by both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. / (US) A European car fitted with American components.

(chemistry) A compound for which no simple structure can be written, but which actually has a structure midway between two simple ones - normally one polar and one nonpolar.

(genetics) a phenomenon in which high transposon mobility causes reduced fertility in hybrid progeny

plural of hybrid meson

(physics) A meson composed of quarks, antiquarks, and nonvirtual gluons (instead of the usual quark-antiquark pair bound by virtual gluons).

(genetics) The first filial generation of seeds or animal offspring, which are usually vigorous and uniform. Produced by crossing two distinctly different parents.

A vehicle that uses two or more power sources, most commonly an internal combustion engine, a battery, an electric generator, and an electric motor, so as to reduce local emissions with adequate vehicle performance.

plural of hybrid vehicle