Inbred meaning

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Produced by inbreeding.
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Bred from closely related parents.
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The definition of inbred is someone who is born from people who are closely related, or is something that exists in a person or animal from birth.

When two cousins get married and have a child, this is an example of a time when the child is inbred.

When a child is born with a natural intelligence, this is an example of inbred intelligence.

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Fixed in the character or disposition as if inherited; deep-seated.

An inbred distrust of radicalism.

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Innate or deeply instilled.
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Resulting from narrow or limited associations.

A small town with inbred political ideas.

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Resulting from physical inbreeding.

Inbred traits.

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Produced by inbreeding.
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Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.
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(often pejorative) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
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(genetics) Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.
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Simple past tense and past participle of inbreed.
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(vulgar) An inbred individual.

Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.

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Consisting of or involving a homogenous or unvaried group of people.
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Sentence Examples

  • inbred, and is not so hardy and prolific as most breeds.

  • All these circumstances combined to render the new regime weak and unpopular, since there was no force at the ruler's command except foreign troops to put down disorder or to protect those who submitted, while the discontented nobles fomented disaffection and the inbred hatred of strangers in race and religion among the general Afghan population.

  • inbred sin.

  • inbreeds all the right qualities (i.e. prone to gaffes, slightly inbred ).

  • backcross lines, recombinant inbred lines and doubled haploid mapping populations.

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