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The term “hybrid” is used in literature to denote a process or product of mixture—whether of species, ideas, or cultural traits. In scientific texts, as seen in Darwin’s discussions on species and fertility ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]), “hybrid” precisely marks the offspring or combination of different biological origins, while in horticultural reports the word describes various cultivated or naturally occurring crosses, from coffee varieties ([7], [8], [9], [10]) to nut trees ([11], [12], [13], [14], [15]). At the same time, the term is employed metaphorically in philosophical or cultural contexts, illustrating mixtures of traditions or qualities—as when literary figures comment on blended identities ([16], [17], [18], [19]) or even in the naming of social groups and garments ([20], [21], [22]). This range of usages underscores the word’s flexibility, bridging scientific specificity with broader cultural and symbolic nuances.
  1. First, for the sterility of species when crossed and of their hybrid offspring.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  2. These facts show how completely the fertility of a hybrid may be independent of its external resemblance to either pure parent.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  3. When two species are crossed, one has sometimes a prepotent power of impressing its likeness on the hybrid.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  4. Hybrid plants produced from a reciprocal cross generally resemble each other closely, and so it is with mongrel plants from a reciprocal cross.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  5. The sterility of first crosses and of their hybrid progeny has not been acquired through natural selection.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  6. HYBRID.—The offspring of the union of two distinct species.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  7. Hybrid coffee in Mysore.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  8. Some Interesting Hybrids The most popular hybrid belongs to a crossing of liberica and arabica .
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  9. A New hybrid Ceylon coffee.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  10. Chalotii , probably a hybrid of C. congensis with C. canephora .
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  11. They seem to be the Japanese species, C. crenata type, or possibly hybrid, not strictly Japanese.
    — from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting
  12. Results from the hybrid test plots are not included in this discussion.
    — from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting
  13. 2. Showing, above, C. mollissima , Chinese chestnut, left, and C. seguini , seguin chestnut, right, parents of mollissima × seguini hybrid below.
    — from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting
  14. This is one of the hybrid English walnuts that is located on the grounds at the Geneva Experiment Station.
    — from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting
  15. The Jones hybrid filberts stand from six to eight feet high, except those planted recently.
    — from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting
  16. I hate Rousseau, even in the Revolution itself: the latter was the historical expression of this hybrid of idealist and canaille.
    — from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist by Nietzsche
  17. The historical nations of Europe, biologically hybrid, are united by common language, folkways, and mores.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  18. The same determination made Jamaica surrender the right of self-government and renders her satisfied with a hybrid political arrangement today.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  19. The hybrid European—a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in all—absolutely requires a costume: he needs history as a storeroom of costumes.
    — from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  20. “They ape the Brāhmanical customs, and call themselves by the curious hybrid name of Vaisya Brāhmans.”
    — from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
  21. The Tea-Gown Every one knows that a tea-gown is a hybrid between a wrapper and a ball dress.
    — from Etiquette by Emily Post
  22. (It appeared my place was to be a hybrid between gouvernante and lady's-maid.)
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

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