Usually means: Hybrid offspring from different breeds.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. crossbreed: Merriam-Webster
  2. crossbreed, crossbreed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crossbreed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crossbreed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crossbreed: Vocabulary.com
  6. crossbreed: Wordnik
  7. crossbreed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crossbreed: Wiktionary
  9. crossbreed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crossbreed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crossbreed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crossbreed: Dictionary.com
  13. Crossbreed (band), Crossbreed (music genre), Crossbreed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Crossbreed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. crossbreed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. crossbreed: Rhymezone
  17. Crossbreed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. crossbreed: FreeDictionary.org
  19. crossbreed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. crossbreed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. crossbreed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crossbreed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crossbreed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. crossbreed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. crossbreed: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crossbreed: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See crossbred as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To produce (an organism) by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species; hybridize.
verb:  (intransitive) To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
verb:  (transitive) To mate (an organism) with another organism so as to produce a hybrid.
noun:  An organism produced by mating of individuals of different varieties or breeds.

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