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INTERBREED
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Irregular inflected form: interbred
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they interbreed ... he / she / it interbreeds
Past simple: interbred
Past participle: interbred
-ing form: interbreeding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
Example:
these species do not interbreed
Synonyms:
cross; crossbreed; hybridise; hybridize; interbreed
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "interbreed" is one way to...):
breed (cause to procreate (animals))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interbreed"):
backcross (mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
interbreeding (reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons))
interbreeding ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)
