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interbreed

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10 lettersPronunciation /ɪnteɹˈbɹid/Part of speech verbSorted bdeeeinrrtStarts with IEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

Word origin

From inter- + breed.

Used in a sentence

  • The city's two-inch Environmental Review Technical Manual instructs regulators to consider adverse environmental impacts on "any subspecies" or "any distinct population segment . . . which interbreeds when mature."
  • The rock dove has so interbred with the feral pigeons from doocots and racing pigeon lofts that, as a pure species, it may possibly now be extinct in Britain.
  • In the wild, deer mice and oldfield mice never interbreed.

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