to outbreed

Examples

• All

• We crazy cracker-worshipping freaks and others like us are just going to continue outbreeding your ilk.

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• While you all are smugly outbreeding us, you're killing the planet for future generations of whatever delusion.

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• Some polar bears lost their pigment like Michael Jackson and thus were better fit for the snowy environment, outbreeding the normal bears in that area.

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• And of course, while you liberal atheist types are busily contracepting and aborting yourselves into demographic oblivion, we'll be outbreeding you.

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• Animals in the wild often outbreed their neighbors to create a more diverse gene pool.

• In an effort to enhance resilience, conservationists aim to outbreed endangered species with healthier populations.

Synonyms

C

to crossbreed

vsto outbreed

3 4.6

To make an animal or plant by mating two different kinds

focuses on mating outside a group to increase genetic diversity

I

to interbreed

vsto outbreed

1 6.5

To mate with another animal or plant of a different type

means mating outside a group mainly to mix genes rather than to increase diversity

O

to outcross

vsto outbreed

• Specialized

8.0

To breed an animal or plant with one from a different genetic line to increase genetic diversity

is the same action described more generally as mating outside a population

Antonyms

I

to inbreed

• Specialized

1 7.7

To mate closely related animals or plants, reducing their variety and causing health problems

How Related

to inbreed

• Specialized

1 7.7

to breed

167 1.8

to outbreed

• Specialized

1 7.2

to crossbreed

3 4.6

to hybridize

• Specialized

3 7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology