interbreed
verbEtymology
From inter- + breed.
Definitions
To breed or reproduce within an isolated community.
To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce…
To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce hybrids.
- 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.
- 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 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.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at interbreed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at interbreed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at interbreed
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA