hybrid

meaning in plain English

A thing made by mixing two different kinds of things together, like a car that runs on both gas and electricity.

Picture a hybrid car, half gas, half electric, like a cheetah with a battery—mixing speed and quiet power.

for example

The farmer grew a sweet hybrid tomato by crossing a cherry tomato with a beefsteak one.

Imagine you take two things that don’t usually go together—like a lion and a tiger—and put them together to make a liger. That liger is a hybrid, a mix of two different parents. Why do we do this? Sometimes the mix gives us the best of both, like a plant that’s strong and tasty at the same time.