inbred

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/ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/ English

Definitions

noun

An inbred individual.“Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.”

adjective

Bred within; innate.
Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

verb

To breed or reproduce with those that are related.
To breed with those that share common traits or qualities.
To produce or generate within.

Related words

Synonyms

inborn indigenous natural connatural native interbred consanguineous no-good true-bred intragenetic hardwired purebred intragenotypic imprinted autozygous intraspecific full-blooded

Associated

heterosis inbreeding pedigree stallion strains homozygous prospector recombinant herod deleterious recessive transgenic

Rhymes

dread lead head dead tread bloodshed aforesaid embed godhead thread

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