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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
interbreed .
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- adjective bred of closely related parents
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are so interbred at this point that where they breed and winter is how they tell them apart.
scouting for ducks 2009
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They are so interbred at this point that where they breed and winter is how they tell them apart.
scouting for ducks 2009
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Appears to me that these two facts are as interbred as the residents of dixie!
Palin gives 'stirring' gun rights speech at NRA dinner, says group 2009
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In 2009, scientists announced the first draft of the genome of Neanderthals; it was later found that humans and Neanderthals likely interbred, with today's humans owing some of their disease-fighting genes to those ancient trysts.
Clues to Man's First Migration Gautam Naik 2011
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Would anybody really notice if barred owls displaced and interbred with every last spotted owl in the Northwest?
Environmentalist Wisdom: Shoot One Owl to Save The Other James L. Huffman 2011
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A major DNA study suggests that our ancestors interbred with the Neanderthals at least twice tens of thousands of years ago – and that their genes have been carried down the millennia ever since.
We May All Have a Little Bit of Neanderthal Man in Us | Impact Lab 2010
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And now we know that neanderthals interbred only with non-Africans, the people who left Africa ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry” 2010
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For a species that's not being deliberately interbred, has a small number of offspring, and reproduces starting at c. age 15 instead of c. age 2, 6000 years is trivial time.
The Wonder That Is Dog, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Some experts believe they interbred with modern humans, others that they were driven to extinction by changing climate or competition for food.
We May All Have a Little Bit of Neanderthal Man in Us | Impact Lab 2010
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Since it was just too durn illogical to imagine that every single individual was slaughtered, they even posit a theory that a tiny band of Aboriginal-Americans fled to Tierra del Fuego at the very, very bottom of South America where they hid and eventually interbred with some of the Argentinian Indian population so they stopped looking black, and started looking Mongoloid.
What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009
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