Means "from two different origins" or "created by mixing" or colloquially (sometimes pejoratively) also hybrid, bastard or blendling. In scientific parlance, this refers to a living organism (plant, animal) that has been created by crossing parents of different breeding lines (genus = genus or species = species). Crosses that occur spontaneously in nature without human intervention are known as natural hybrids, especially in the case of plants. In viticulture, hybrids are only understood to be the results of crosses between different species or genera.
Strictly speaking, crosses of the same species are also hybrids (intraspecific = within the species). As a rule, however, only interspecific or intergeneric crosses are regarded as hybrids.
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