interbreeding

in·ter·breed

I0182000 (ĭn′tər-brēd′)v. in·ter·bred (-brĕd′), in·ter·breed·ing, in·ter·breeds v.intr.1. To breed with individuals of another species, subspecies, or variety; crossbreed: dogs interbreeding with wolves.2. To breed regularly with others of the same kind: a species as a group of individuals that interbreed.v.tr. To cause to interbreed.

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Noun	1.	interbreeding - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybridscrossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, crossing, crossmating, pairing, sexual union, union, coupling, conjugation - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"dihybrid cross - hybridization using two traits with two alleles eachmonohybrid cross - hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas)reciprocal cross, reciprocal - hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotypetestcross, test-cross - a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspringgenetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
	2.	interbreeding - reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)miscegenation, crossbreedingfacts of life, procreation, reproduction, breeding - the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

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