Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The breeding or mating of distantly related or unrelated individuals.
- noun The intentional breeding of distantly related or unrelated individuals for the purpose of producing offspring of superior quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the crossing of a pure strain of organisms with members of another strain or of the same strain from another locality.
- noun In ethnology, the custom of intermarrying or interbreeding outside the tribe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
breeding ofunrelated (or only distantly related) individuals - noun The
mating of people from different groups (especially as a result of social proscription)
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Examples
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She has even begun to touch on the American hard right's preposterous predictions that Muslims are "outbreeding" the continent's traditional populations and will impose shariah law "within decades."
Johann Hari: The Refugee Who Rocked Islam: an Exclusive Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2008
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hybrid offspring from these Arctic animal matings will likely be strong and healthy, because unlike inbreeding, which magnifies deleterious genes, so-called outbreeding can mask these genes.
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hybrid offspring from these Arctic animal matings will likely be strong and healthy, because unlike inbreeding, which magnifies deleterious genes, so-called outbreeding can mask these genes.
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In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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