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interbred

[ UK /ˌɪntəbɹˈɛd/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈbɹɛd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. bred of closely related parents

How To Use interbred In A Sentence

  • European boars interbred with the Polynesians' small pigs, and the offspring ran wild.
  • And so they have, in In Great Waters: deepsmen and landsmen having interbred to produce hybrid humans who dominate the royal houses of Europe. Archive 2010-04-01
  • The communities interbred, and their offspring made pot the bedrock of the local economy. Times, Sunday Times
  • I suspect that apart from violent incidents and perhaps occasional vendettas between individuals or clans, modern humans and Neanderthals coexisted and to some extent mixed, traded, and interbred.
  • Where once ballet slippers, car shoes, moccasins and brogues were once boringly themselves, now they've somehow interbred, jollied up and produced a new generation of lightened-up fashion ideas.
  • Sagas about a family which continually interbred with trolls. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Their ruthless pursuit of Navajos in the 1860s led to isolation of a small band, which interbred, risking genetic disorders.
  • Their ruthless pursuit of Navajos in the 1860s led to isolation of a small band, which interbred, risking genetic disorders.
  • Woolly and Columbian mammoths, two species of elephant that once lived in North America, may have interbred.
  • It is the closest living relative of the domestic horse, and despite a difference in chromosome number, the two species are the only members of the equid family still capable of producing fertile offspring if interbred.
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