Definition of "interbreeding" [interbreeding]

• Present participle of interbreed. (verb)
• Breeding within a narrow range of individuals (noun)

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• "The concept of a species whose capital depends upon interbreeding is complex."
• "Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany had previously dismissed the idea of interbreeding when he analysed Neanderthal mitochondrial"
• "The AKC is rigorously against any kind of interbreeding, and has adopted a system of “pure” breeds that guarantees extensive amounts of destructive inbreeding will continue."