14748 IUPAC Gold Book - hybrid 10.1351/goldbook.14748 14748 current 1 Result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different taxa.Note: Hybrids between different species within the same genus are sometimes known as interspecific hybrids or crosses. Hybrids between different subspecies within a species are known as intra-specific hybrids. Hybrids between different genera are sometimes known as intergeneric hybrids. Cross-breed between populations, breeds, or cultivars within a single species.Note: Hybridization is often used in plant and animal breeding to obtain desirable characteristics not found or inconsistently present in the parent individuals or populations. genera https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14716 populations https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14932 PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 897 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14748/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14748/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14748/plain Citation: 'hybrid' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14748 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-24T23:24:59+00:00