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interbreed Definition

inter·breed (in′tər brēd, intər brēd′)

transitive verb, intransitive verb -·bred, -·breed·ing

hybridize

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.