INTERBREED (interbred)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: interbred   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does interbreed mean? 

• INTERBREED (verb)
  The verb INTERBREED has 1 sense:

1. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

  Familiarity information: INTERBREED used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERBREED (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they interbreed    ... he / she / it interbreeds   
Past simple: interbred   
Past participle: interbred   
-ing form: interbreeding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cross; crossbreed; hybridise; hybridize; interbreed

Context example:

these species do not interbreed

Hypernyms (to "interbreed" is one way to...):

breed (cause to procreate (animals))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interbreed"):

backcross (mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

interbreeding (reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons))

interbreeding ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)

 Context examples 

The regular and simultaneous occurrence of alternative nucleotide sequences at equivalent locations of the genetic material among individuals of a single interbreeding population that are not maintained by recurrent mutation.

(Genetic Polymorphism, NCI Thesaurus)

Interbreeding between the two different species of finches produced fertile offspring of a new species.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)

During their primordial migration out of Africa, ancestors of present-day humans are thought to have interbred with Neanderthals, whose brain characteristics can be inferred from their fossilized skulls.

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Intergenic Sequences consists of a variation at an appreciable frequency between individuals of a single interbreeding population of a single nucleotide, due to base substitution, at an equivalent location within a DNA sequence of genetic material that lies between the boundaries of adjacent genes.

(Intergenic SNP, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying one of the basic units of biological classification and taxonomic rank that specifies a group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can interbreed with one another to produce fertile offspring.

(Animal Species Code, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Genetics analysed the sequencing data to investigate evidence of interbreeding between the ancestors of modern humans and extinct human lineages such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, which occurred 40,000 to 60,000 years ago.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

A Non-synonymous Coding SNP consists of a variation at an appreciable frequency between individuals of a single interbreeding population of a single nucleotide, due to base substitution, at an equivalent location within a protein-coding region of a gene that causes an alteration of the translation of the affected codon into a different amino acid in the protein product.

(Non-synonymous Coding SNP, NCI Thesaurus)

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Intronic Sequences (Intronic SNP) consists of a variation at an appreciable frequency between individuals of a single interbreeding population of a single nucleotide, due to base substitution, at an equivalent location within a transcribed non-coding intervening DNA sequence separating protein-coding sequences (exons) in an eukaryotic nuclear gene.

(Intronic SNP, NCI Thesaurus)