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Today’s Rhymes With Orange:

Cross-species hybrid, portmanteau to do along with it. The model here is the names for mixed-breed dogs: -poo- mixes, of poodle plus something else (yorki(e)poo for poodle + yorkie) in a 1/29/12 posting, canine portmanteaus more generally (labradoodle, cockapoo) in a 1/31/14 posting.

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