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