Interbreed
[ɪntə'briːd] or [,ɪntɚ'brid]
Definition
(v. t. & i.) To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
Typist: Pansy
Definition
v.t. and v.i. to breed by crossing one species of animals or plants with another.—n. Interbreed′ing.
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Examples
- All mankind can interbreed freely, can learn to understand the same speech, can adapt itself to co-operation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Men imitate men, fight and conquer them, interbreed, one people with another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But I believe that their fertility has been diminished in nearly all these cases by an independent cause, namely, by too close interbreeding. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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