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Interbreed

verb
(past & past part. interbred; pres. part. interbreeding)
1.
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.  Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize.  "Mendel tried crossbreeding" , "These species do not interbreed"



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"Interbreed" Quotes from Famous Books



... common and even usual, is yet a necessary consequence. That ill effects follow in a majority of cases is not to be doubted, but this is easily and sufficiently accounted for upon other grounds. In a state of nature animals of near affinities interbreed without injurious results, and it is found by experience that where domesticated animals are of a pure race, or of a distinct, well defined and pure breed, the coupling of those of near affinities is not ...
— The Principles of Breeding • S. L. Goodale



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