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line-bred
Variant of line breeding
line breeding
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☆ line breeding
the producing of desired characteristics in animals by inbreeding through several successive generations
Related Forms:
- line-breed line′·-breed′ transitive verb line-bred -·bred′, line-breeding -·breed′ing
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