Hybridise vs. Hybridize: What's the Difference?

Standard spelling of hybridize

To produce hybrids; crossbreed.

Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties;

To form base pairs between complementary regions of two strands of DNA that were not originally paired.

To cause to produce a hybrid; crossbreed.

To form a mixture of any kind.

(transitive) To cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.

(intransitive) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed.

(transitive) To construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages.

(physics) To combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.

(biochemistry) To combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.

To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.

Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties;