ˈhybridous, a. Now rare or Obs.
[f. L. hybrida + -ous. (The only word of the group in Johnson.)]
= hybrid a.; of hybrid character.
| 1691 Ray Creation ii. (1692) 69 Why such different Species should not only mingle together, but also generate an Animal, and yet that that hybridous Production should not again generate, and so a new Race be carried on. 1714 L. Milbourne Traitor's Rew. Pref., The phrase was hybridous, and therefore inelegant. 1771 Misc. in Ann. Reg. 172/2 Botanists..have produced hybridous plants. 1794 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 390 It proved to be a hybridous plant or mule. 1803 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 192 Elizabeth R., which is a glaring hybridous mixture of English and Latin. 1885 W. M{supc}Donald in N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 290 No hybridous architecture. |