Interbreed

Quick meaning: Interbreed is a verb meaning To breed or reproduce within an isolated community.

Meaning

To breed or reproduce within an isolated community.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce hybrids.

Example Sentences

In the wild, deer mice and oldfield mice never interbreed.

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.

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 rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm.

Word Forms

• interbreeds
• interbreeding
• interbred

Synonyms for interbreed

Depending on context, synonyms include crossbreed, hybridize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crossbreed, hybridize, intercross, rebreed, xbreed, outcross.

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