OUTBRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outbred mean? 

• OUTBRED (adjective)
  The adjective OUTBRED has 1 sense:

1. bred of parents not closely related; having parents of different classes or tribes

  Familiarity information: OUTBRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTBRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bred of parents not closely related; having parents of different classes or tribes

Also:

exogamic; exogamous (pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe)

crossbred (bred from parents of different varieties or species)

Domain category:

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

Antonym:

inbred (produced by inbreeding)

 Context examples 

This outbred rat breed is white with a black or brown hood.

(LE, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Origin: An outbred stock of fawn hooded rats introduced into Europe by Tschopp in the early 1970s.

(FHH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Albino outbred guinea pig belonging to the English (short-haired) breed.

(Dunkin Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

Maintained as an outbred stock until the mid-1980s, then brother x sister mating initiated by A.P. Provoost to produce two strains designated FHH (also known as FHR) and FHL, which differ in hypertension and proteinuria.

(FHH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)