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Interbreeding

noun
1.
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids.  Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing.
2.
Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons).  Synonyms: crossbreeding, miscegenation.






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"Interbreeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... warrant their being classed, and specifically named apart. It is not as I said before, that we should go upon peculiarities of marking and colour, although these are sufficiently obvious, but on their osteology and also the question of interbreeding and production. Grant their relative sizes, one so much bigger than the other, and the difference in colour and marking, has it ever been known that out of a litter of several cubs by a female of the larger kind, one of the smaller sort has been produced, or vice versa? This ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale



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