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

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

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022

The best for commercial farming is the Hybrid tree - a crossbreed of the indigenous West African Tall and the Dwarf which originates from Asia.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2022

Where the two subspecies occur together, individuals of one subspecies do not crossbreed with individuals of the other subspecies and therefore react toward one another as do full species.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley

Mrs Justice Beverley Lang dismissed most of the legal challenge, saying there was "sufficient evidence of an alarmingly high level of fatal attacks" by XL bullies or XL bullies crossbreeds.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024

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

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

In Asia, they coincided with the Denisovans, and that encounter may have led to confrontations and collaborations, but also various crossbreeding.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

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