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    INTERBREEDING

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)play

    Synonyms:

    crossbreeding; interbreeding; miscegenation

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("interbreeding" is a kind of...):

    breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)

    Derivation:

    interbreed (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybridsplay

    Synonyms:

    cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("interbreeding" is a kind of...):

    conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes)

    Domain category:

    genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interbreeding"):

    dihybrid cross (hybridization using two traits with two alleles each)

    monohybrid cross (hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas))

    reciprocal; reciprocal cross (hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype)

    test-cross; testcross (a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring)

    Derivation:

    interbreed (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)

     II. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    -ing form of the verb interbreed

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