2.23.2006

Does hybridity mean anything?



Question:
You remember something from years before and are trying to relate it something you know now; how do you look to make connections?

Define: hybridity: a hybrid condition.

1837 DARWIN in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 8 It would lead to closest examination of hybridity. 1842 PRICHARD Nat. Hist. Man 12 Briefly surveying the phenomena of hybridity. 1890 STUART GLENNIE in Nature 2 Oct., The Aryan languages present such indications of hybridity as would correspond with such racial intermixture.
Oxford English Dictionary hybridity

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