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mongrelisms

mongrelisms is the plural of mongrelism.

Meaning of mongrelism

Noun

mongrelism (countable and uncountable, plural mongrelisms)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being a mongrel.
    • It is, however, quite possible, and perhaps probable, that the brown Polynesians were originally the produce of a mixture of Malays, or some lighter coloured Mongol race with the dark Papuans; but if so, the intermingling took place at such a remote epoch, and has been so assisted by the continued...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 455
  2. (countable) cross-breeding or hybridization

Questions about mongrelisms

What is mongrelisms the plural of?
Mongrelisms is the plural of mongrelism.

Words near mongrelisms in the dictionary

  1. mongrelised
  2. mongrelises
  3. mongrelish
  4. mongrelising
  5. mongrelism
  6. mongrelisms
  7. mongrelity
  8. mongrelization
  9. mongrelizations
  10. mongrelize
  11. mongrelized

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