collective | hybridize

James Corner "Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes":

col·lec·tive   [kuh-lek-tiv]

–adjective

1. forming a whole: the collective assets of the city and its citizens.     

2. of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision, collective memory, collective consciousness     

3. organized according to the principles of collectivism: a collective farm.

–noun

4. collective noun: a noun, as herd, grove,  or clergy,  that appears singular in formal shape but denotes a group of persons or objects

5. a collective body; aggregate.

6. a business, farm, etc., jointly owned and operated by the members of a group.

7. a unit of organization or the organization in a collectivist system.

—Related forms

col·lec·tive·ly, adverb

non·col·lec·tive, adjective

non·col·lec·tive·ly, adverb

un·col·lec·tive, adjective

un·col·lec·tive·ly, adverb

hy·brid·ize   [hahy-bri-dahyz] 

–verb (used with object)

1. to breed or cause the production of (a hybrid); cross.

2. to form in a hybrid manner.

–verb (used without object)

3. to produce hybrids; cause the production of hybrids by crossing.

4. to form a double-stranded nucleic acid of two single strands of DNA or RNA, or one of each, by allowing the base pairs of the separate strands to form complementary bonds.

5. to fuse two cells of different genotypes into a hybrid cell.

—Related forms

hy·brid·iz·a·ble, adjective

hy·brid·i·za·tion, noun

hy·brid·ist, hy·brid·iz·er, noun

in·ter·hy·brid·ize, verb (used without object), -ized, -iz·ing.