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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
interbreed .
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Examples
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In 1978, the Act was amended and the new definition provides that a species includes “any subspecies of fish or wildlife or plants, and any distinct population segment (DPS) of any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife which interbreeds when mature” (ESA, Section 4). (emphasis added)
Distinct Population Segment policy (1996) under the Endangered Species Act, United States 2008
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If a species interbreeds with other species, the crossbreeds are their descendants.
Demons Don't Dream Anthony, Piers 1993
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The gaur interbreeds with the mithan, and both have a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 58.
6 Wild Banteng 1983
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Some naturalists would separate them from the other cats, but the connection is supplied by the last species which, though possessing certain features of the lynx, yet interbreeds with the true cats.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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_Gavaeus frontalis_ interbreeds freely with domesticated cattle of all kinds.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The plant also faces a more immediate threat in the form of Spanish bluebells, an invasive species which has escaped from gardens and interbreeds with the native bluebell to produce a hybrid.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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The plant also faces a more immediate threat in the form of Spanish bluebells, an invasive species which has escaped from gardens and interbreeds with the native bluebell to produce a hybrid.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The plant also faces a more immediate threat in the form of Spanish bluebells, an invasive species which has escaped from gardens and interbreeds with the native bluebell to produce a hybrid.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I don't necessarily believe your argument that after a short period of fisticuffs everyone settles down nicely and interbreeds.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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The plant also faces a more immediate threat in the form of Spanish bluebells, an invasive species which has escaped from gardens and interbreeds with the native bluebell to produce a hybrid.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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