<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A dog of mixed or indeterminate breed.</li><li>Any animal or plant resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.</li><li>Anything derived from heterogeneous sources, or composed of elements of different or incongruous kinds: a hybrid of the academic and business worlds.</li><li>A word composed of elements originally drawn from different languages, as television, whose components come from Greek and Latin.</li><li>Something that is powered by more than one source of power: a wind-solar hybrid to generate electricity.</li><li>A car or other vehicle that combines an internal-combustion engine with one or more electric motors powered by a battery: She says she's proud to be driving a hybrid.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel.</li></ul>