inbred

Examples

• All

• Perhaps it's because my own large extended family, the Liebermans, are ridiculously inbred.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The civil libertarian community in Washington, D.C., has always been a relatively small, inbred scene where everyone knows everyone else.

  Academic text (2003)

• It's such an inbred family.

  Match Point (2005)

• We are an inbred mining community, Ben.

  My Bloody Valentine (2009)

• We have one of the oldest bloodlines in Europe... and one of the most inbred.

  One, Two, Three (1961)

• They're so inbred that their genetic weaknesses are going to kill them in another generation or two.

  Fiction book (1998)

• At East Lansing, ARS maintains more than 50 inbred lines of chickens ideally suited for genetic studies.

  Academic text (2005)

• Tilson argues that captive tigers are so inbred that they could not survive if released into their native habitat, as some people advocate.

  Academic text (2008)

• Peterson and ARS plant breeder Jack E. Staub combined resistance to 10 diseases in one inbred.

  Academic text (1994)

• The researchers studied the effects of an inbred population of plants on the ecosystem.

Synonyms

I

interbred

vsinbred

1 7.4

Having parents who are close relatives, like brothers or sisters

result from repeated mating across several successive generations

Antonyms

O

outbred

• Specialized

1 7.7

Born from parents who are not closely related to have more different genes

How Diverse

diverse

253 3.4

crossbred

1 4.8

purebred

• Specialized

10 4.6

inbred

• Specialized

14 8.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology