<h1>Hyalotype</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy*al"o*type</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ glass + <ets>-type</ets>.]</ety> <def>A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.</def>
<i>R. Hunt.</i>
<h1>Hybernacle, Hybernate, Hybernation</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw><hw>Hy*ber"na*cle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Hy"ber*nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Hy`ber*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>.<hw><def>See <er>Hibernacle</er>, <er>Hibernate</er>, <er>Hibernation</er>.</def>
<h1>Hybl\'91an</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy*bl\'91"an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Hyblaeus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.</def>
<h1>Hybodont</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hyb"o*dont</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ hump + <?/, <?/, a tooth.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (<spn>Hybodus</spn>), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.</def>
<h1>Hybodus</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hyb"o*dus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. See <er>Hybodont</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth.</def>
<h1>Hybrid</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy"brid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>hybrida</ets>, <ets>hibrida</ets>, prob. allied to Gr. <?/ wantonness (as if unbridled, lawless, unnatural), perh. akin to Gr. <?/ over, E. <ets>over</ets>: cf. F. <ets>hybride</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See <er>Mongrel</er>.</def>
<h1>Hybrid</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy"brid</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Produced from the mixture of two species; <as>as, plants of <ex>hybrid</ex> nature</as>.</def>
<h1>Hybridism</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy"brid*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being hybrid.</def>
<h1>Hybridist</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy"brid*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who hybridizes.</def>
<h1>Hybridity</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy*brid"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Hybridism.</def>
<h1>Hybridizable</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy"brid*i`za*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock.</def>
<blockquote><b>Hybridizable</b> genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids. <i>J. D. Hooker.</i></blockquote>
<h1>Hybridization</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy`brid*i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.</def>
<h1>Hybridize</h1> <Xpage=715>
<hw>Hy"brid*i`ze</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hybridized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hybridizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.</def>
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