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Definition of Interbreed
1. Verb. Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties. "These species do not interbreed"
Generic synonyms: Breed
Specialized synonyms: Backcross
Derivative terms: Cross, Cross, Crossing, Crossbreed, Hybridisation, Hybrid, Hybrid, Hybridization, Hybridizing, Interbreeding, Interbreeding
Definition of Interbreed
1. v. t. & i. To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
Definition of Interbreed
1. Verb. To breed or reproduce within a isolated community. ¹
2. Verb. To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce hybrids. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Interbreed
1. [v -BRED, -BREEDING, -BREEDS]
Medical Definition of Interbreed
1. To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interbreed
Literary usage of Interbreed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological by Asa Gray (1891)
"All that can be said is, that whereas known varieties tend to interbreed with
unimpaired and sometimes with increased fertility, distinct species of near ..."
2. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1908)
"They apparently do not interbreed, and certainly are permanent only on the
appropriate host from which in some cases they cannot be transferred to any other ..."
3. Life: Its Nature, Origin, Development, and the Psychical Related to the Physical by Salem Wilder (1886)
"I say appear to be different species, for I do not believe that radically different
species can interbreed. Hybrids do not interbreed between themselves. ..."
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