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🏇 A purebred animal 🐕 Of pure breed
pureblood

pureblood

2 7.5
An animal, often a horse, whose parents and grandparents are all the same breed
  • noun
  • /ˈpjʊrˌblʌd/
  • Specialized
: pura sangre

Examples

  • They knew a man of great influence from a famous French pureblood family.

    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

  • David is the last of the purebloods.

    Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

  • You will need 12 purebloods to make the ritual work.

    Blade (1998)

  • The horse, a pureblood, won every race it entered due to its exceptional lineage.

  • She adopted a pureblood dog that came from a long line of champions.

  • Many breeders strive to maintain the pureblood status of their animals through careful selection.

Synonyms

thoroughbred
vspureblood
4 5.8

An animal of pure breed with a recorded family history

is a general pedigreed animal term for unmixed lineage
purebred
vspureblood
  • Specialized
3 4.2

An animal whose parents are from the same family line and that often has papers showing its family

is the pedigreed animal term for unmixed ancestry
full blood
vspureblood
  • Archaic
1 7.4

A person or animal whose parents are both from the same pure group

is the pedigreed animal idea limited to animals rather than people

How Pedigreed

pureblood
  • Specialized
2 7.5
purebred
  • Specialized
10 4.6
half-bred
10 7.0
crossbred
1 4.8

Surface Forms

pureblood singular
purebloods plural

Morphology

pureblood = pure + blood (semi-transparent) = pure + blood

Components are transparent individually, but the sense 'blood' = 'lineage' is idiomatic and may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Pureblood is literally a 'pure blood' animal, formed from pure and blood. It is like saying the animal has a single bloodline or a clear 'pedigree', so a pureblood has ancestors all from the same breed.