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English Dictionary: 'hybrid	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mule \Mule\ (m[umac]l), n. [F., a she-mule, L. mula, fem. of mulus; cf. Gr. my`klos, mychlo`s. Cf. AS. m[umac]l, fr. L. mulus. Cf. {Mulatto}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See {Hinny}. Note: Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy, and proverbial for stubbornness. 2. (Bot.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also {hybrid}. 3. A very stubborn person. 4. A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also {jenny} and {mule-jenny}. {Mule armadillo} (Zo[94]l.), a long-eared armadillo (Tatusia hybrida), native of Buenos Aires; -- called also {mulita}. See Illust. under {Armadillo}. {Mule deer} (Zo[94]l.), a large deer ({Cervus, [or] Cariacus, macrotis}) of the Western United States. The name refers to its long ears. {Mule pulley} (Mach.), an idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel. {Mule twist}, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hybrid \Hy"brid\, n. (Philol.) A word composed of elements which belong to different languages.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hybrid \Hy"brid\, n. [L. hybrida, hibrida, prob. allied to Gr. [?] wantonness (as if unbridled, lawless, unnatural), perh. akin to Gr. "ype`r over, E. over: cf. F. hybride.] (Biol.) The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See {Mongrel}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hybrid \Hy"brid\, a. Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Hybrid A {concurrent} {object-oriented} language. ["Active Objects in Hybrid", O.M. Nierstrasz, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):243-253 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987)]. (1994-12-07)