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[ US /ˈpjʊɹˈbɹɛd/ ]
[ UK /pjˈʊɹɛbɹəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain
NOUN
  1. a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses

How To Use purebred In A Sentence

  • The ten purebred dogs, most of them Labrador retrievers, were rescued about a year ago when U.S. law-enforcement officers raided a rural Colombia veterinary clinic.
  • Because of the way dogs have been breed, there is little genetic variation within purebred dogs and many breeds of dogs began with a very small number of dogs, so they had little genetic variation to begin with.
  • Something in my memories hints that there were rumors that the Hellhound was mixing his purebreds with wolves or coyotes.
  • For example, big purebreds like German shepherds and Labs and Rottweilers, they tend to suffer from hip dysplasia, which is an abnormality that can require hip replacement, and that's pretty expensive. CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2003
  • The top ten diseases in purebreds include several that are major health concerns to humans, including cancer, epilepsy, retinal disease, cataracts, and heart disease.
  • In central Iowa, purebred bucks and does cost $500 or more per animal.
  • Following the war it was estimated than only sixty purebred wisents existed in the entire world.
  • By all measures, the beef from these cross-pollinated calves is ‘substantially equivalent’ to that of my purebreds.
  • In all the other cases, hybrids fared at least as well as the purebreds, and sometimes even better.
  • The researchers found more than three times as many hybrid kittens reached adulthood than purebreds.
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