crossbreed

I am personally drawn to the most anxious among the herd — Cowboy — a crossbreed who holds his head in rigid panic, hair long and straight as a Long Beach girl’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

And when distant relatives "crossbreed," this can lead to the emergence of viruses with completely new properties.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024

In October, the government banned the crossbreed under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 following a rise in fatal attacks.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023

Later there were dorgis — a dachshund and corgi crossbreed — owned by the queen.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022

They looked as though someone had managed to crossbreed the Joshua tree with the cypress and then persuaded the result to grow grass instead of leaves.

From Anything You Can Do ... by Randall Garrett

She also raised concerns over designer crossbreeds being bred by puppy farms, leading to bad behaviour and bad health.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that’s spreading out of control.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

Nine out of 10 crossbreeds that we do go nowhere, and we have no expectation when we start.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023

American Eskimos, Neapolitans, French bulldogs, a Siberian husky and American Staffordshire terrier, maltipoos, poodle crossbreeds and golden retrievers were some of the dogs that took to the red carpet and won prices.

From Reuters ● Dec. 12, 2022

Technically speaking, the great majority of the “yaks” one sees in the Himalaya are actually dzopkyo—male crossbreeds of yaks and cattle—or dzom, female crossbreeds.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

All are hybrids - crossbred varieties created by combining two or more distinct grape species.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

American dairy producers are continuing to expand the number of beef cattle they produce that are crossbred with dairy cows, but cattlemen have been reluctant thus far to grow their herds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

Large commercial rewards have been reaped from these crossbred literary partnerships.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

This evolutionary process leads to the formation of ecotypes, i.e., locally adapted "plant breeds" that differ slightly in appearance and may no longer be easily crossbred.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024

They reminded me of miniature cafeteria ladies who’d been crossbred with dodo birds.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

Bees in Southern California, originally from Europe, started crossbreeding with Africanized bees in the 1990s, said Orange County beekeeper Mike Henderson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

However, the initial crossbreeding that created it was done without any intervention from humans.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024

The researchers, hoping to learn more about the plants to better protect them from pests and climate change, found that the species emerged around 600,000 years ago through natural crossbreeding of two other coffee species.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

An alternative approach to making more babies, like crossbreeding northern and southern white rhinos, would mean the resulting calves wouldn’t be genetically pure northern white rhinos, Hildebrandt notes.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 24, 2024

The only crossbreeding attempted thus far ended in failure when a storm destroyed most of the bags prior to application of pollen.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association