interbreed
interbreed
Definition
inter·breed (in′tər brēd′, in′tər brēd′)
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·bred′, -·breed′·ing
interbreed
Usage Examples
Object
- championship: Mr Davidson will judge the beef breeder champion and junior beef interbreed championship.
- specie: He carried out comparative studies of germination under different conditions and interbred garden species with their wild congeners.
- population: A paper describing DNA studies of quelea in southern Africa providing evidence that they are one interbreeding population and can be modeled as such.
- pair: Also at Balmoral her home-bred hogget ewe was placed fourth in the interbreed pairs contest along with a home-bred shearling tup from Mervyn Currie.
- group: A feral pigeon is the name given to interbreeding groups of stock doves and rock doves.
Modifies a noun
- title: Glens ewe went on to repeat Sparky success in the interbreed, and took the days reserve Interbreed title.
Modifying Another Word
- never: In this way, genes can be transferred between distant species which would never interbreed in nature.
- not: This is about the best advert ever for not interbreeding.
- freely: From a scientific point of view, all these species freely interbreed, most of the offspring being fertile too.
- all: And the key fact is that they are still all dogs: they can all interbreed.
- n't: However, one group of humans have been isolated long enough to evolve into a new species that ca n't interbreed with the others.
- also: Unfortunately the two species also interbreed to give hybrids, which makes it extremely difficult to define the genetic purity of a wildcat.
Infinitive complement
- produce: Inevitably these two types became interbred to produce the hound we know today.
Preposition: in
- nature: In this way, genes can be transferred between distant species which would never interbreed in nature.
Preposition: with
- population: Documentary evidence is there to show that many of them intermarried and interbred with the Irish population.
- human: This Scripture is further proof that fallen angels had interbred with humans.
- salmon: Escaped farm salmon may interbreed with wild salmon and compete with them at their spawning grounds ( 5 ).
- cat: The Mammals Trust UK claims the species is " on the brink of extinction " due to it interbreeding with domestic cats.
- specie: France has concerns that GE oilseed rape could interbreed with related species in the wild and has declared a temporary moratorium.
- deer: Sika deer, escapees from deer parks since the mid-19th century, have also had an adverse impact, interbreeding with red deer.
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