| VERB | contact | interbreed, crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise | breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties |
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| Meaning | Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "these species do not interbreed" | |
| Synonyms | crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise | |
| Narrower | backcross | mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents |
| Broader | breed | Cause to procreate (animals) |
| Spanish | cruzar, hibridizar | |
| Nouns | interbreeding | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids |
| interbreeding | reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | |
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