Noun a Siamese crossbreed who was atypically black, but had the build and voice of a Siamese
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Alex worked at the ranch operated by Floyd Newcomer, a Brangus cattle pioneer who in 1949 crossbreed Brahman and Angus cattle to develop the hybrid Brangus. Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022 In Arizona, an unusual rancher is trying to crossbreed cattle to produce less methane gas and better withstand drought.Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021 Red oaks often crossbreed with pin oaks, and the resulting trees will be yellow and sick in our clay soils. Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2021 The herd in Grand Canyon National Park is believed to be made up of direct descendants of the bison introduced to the area by Charles Jones, known as Buffalo Jones, in the 1900s as a ranching experiment to crossbreed bison and cattle. Azi Paybarah New York Times, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021 Waterfowl crossbreed more than any other bird—more than 400 combinations of hybrid waterfowl have been recorded. Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021 These two species are the most common ducks to crossbreed. Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021 The chimeras, or hybrid creatures, that populate Veronica Barker-Barzel’s art crossbreed the banal and the fantastic.Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020 In 1906 Jones carted 86 of them from Kansas to Arizona, as a ranching experiment to crossbreed with cattle.Outdoor Life, 24 Nov. 2020
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Moulard is a crossbreed of Pekin and Muscovy, often used for foie gras. Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022 Those big-ass crossbreed locusts start decimating crops across the American heartland, quickly multiplying to the point where Dr. Wu, who developed the freak species, warns of an impending food shortage. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2022 Both are crossbreeds of Angus cattle and Scottish Highland cows. Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2020 Those with pure Florida DNA are believed to be genetically superior to crossbreeds. Matt Williams, Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2020 Gantz’s only option was to blindly engineer, and crossbreed, scores of flies, in hopes that two carrying the recessive mutation would eventually find each other and mate. Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020 Ariel Levy explores the phenomenon of half-wild feline crossbreeds, and Ian Frazier examines the alarming proliferation of feral hogs in the South.The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2019 Mitt Romney is heading to the Senate now despite being a crossbreed of a career executive and a Brooks Brothers mannequin. Sangeeta Singh-kurtz, Quartz at Work, 22 July 2019 On Game of Thrones, the extinct wolves are played by Northern Inuit dogs (a crossbreed related to huskies and German shepherds that was selectively bred to resemble wolves) and an arctic wolf.National Geographic, 6 May 2019 See More