purebred

adj

Etymology

From pure + bred.

  1. inherited from bred — “board, plank, tablet, table
  2. inherited from bred
  3. compounded as purebred — “pure + bred

Definitions

  1. Having genuine parents of the same breed, usually of an animal.

    • Delaney lifted her head, glaring at her only purebred dog—a black Dachshund with bladder control issues—who was tugging at his festively decorated dungaree wraparound diaper, trying to yank it off.
  2. An animal which has genuine parents of the same breed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at purebred. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at purebred. 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 purebred

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