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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Produced by inbreeding.
- adjective Consisting of or involving a homogenous or unvaried group of people.
- adjective Fixed in the character or disposition as if inherited; deep-seated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Produced or developed within; innate; inherent; intrinsic: as, inbred modesty or good sense.
- Bred in-and-in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bred within; innate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. - adjective often pejorative having an ancestry characterized by
inbreeding - adjective genetics describing a
strain produced through successive generations ofinbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which arehomozygous at allgenetic loci . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
inbreed . - noun An inbred individual
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective normally existing at birth
- adjective produced by inbreeding
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Examples
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I guess that's what you can expect from a bunch in inbred Bible thumbers.
Democrats point to 'Smoking Tweet' in GOP stalling health care 2009
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But tell me, is it true that bein 'inbred helps with banjo pickin???????
An affair of honor David 2006
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To pull the plug genetically on a malignancy and prevent it from even appearing was pretty unusual, even in inbred mice.
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The development of this field from an outlandish rejection reaction in inbred mice to the mighty supergene system of today that all immunologists, cancer research workers and many virologists and developmental biologists meet in their daily work is one of the most exciting chapters in the enormous building of modern biology.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980 - Presentation Speech 1992
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Nice to see that flatshire’s paramedics are the same as the ones here in inbred-ville. on September 23, 2009 at 12: 42 pm Medic
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These breeding populations are referred to as inbred lines, for example, lines A and B.
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Page 55 sin, actual and inbred, which is the work of the devil.
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The plastic looking, fake smiling, with the intellect of an inbred are the Repukelicans.
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Yeah, it's called the inbred Appalachian baby-factory cult. ralph the wonder llama Says:
Think Progress 2009
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Yeah, it's called the inbred Appalachian baby-factory cult.
Think Progress 2009
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