The collaboration sense uses to be read as the name of the letterx in the embedding language.
The biological hybrid sense likewise can be expressed as the name of the letterx, in English, as well ascross,by, a precedinghybridspecies, silence, and by other solutions.
The sense "times", as in2× as much soap, can be pronouncedtimes orx.
2012 July 19, “Rubus Diversity and Obscurity…Batology!”, inThe Fruit Nut[1] (in English):
Another Rubus character of particular interest isR. ursinus× idaeus, or boysenberry. This is a complex hybrid which came about as a cross between European raspberry (R. idaeus), common blackberry (R. fruticosus), and loganberry (Rubus× loganobaccus). The hyrbid was originally developed during the late 1920’s in California by a farmer named Rudolph Boysen.
2022 July 23, Gargi Harjai, “Where to buy theJohn Richmond×Playboy collection? Price, release date, and more explored”, inSportskeeda[2] (in English):
2011, Dmitry Telnov,Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea: Volume 1 (in German),→ISBN, page204:
Apikalglied nicht besonders lang, beim Männchen etwa doppelt so lang wie das vorletzte Glied. [...] Beine lang und schlank. Das Basalglied der Hintertarsen 1,3× so lang wie die restlichen Glieder zusammen.