Definition of "pure-bred" []

• Alternative spelling of purebred. (noun)
• Alternative spelling of purebred. (adjective)

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• "Julius Caesar, Livy and the geographer Strabo all had a go before Tacitus published his monograph in 98 A.D. But it was his account of these pure-bred, frighteningly tall, dazzlingly blond warriors with their piercing blue eyes, their chastity and their courage, that stuck in the German mind and, nearly two millennia later, bolstered the Nazis' fantasies that they were destined to be the Master Race."
• "If a herd is believed, from prior testing, to consist mostly of pure-bred bison, 'it would be a tragedy to purposefully bring in hybrids,' says Jim Derr, who researches bison genetics at Texas A&M University."
• "If a herd is believed, from prior testing, to consist mostly of pure-bred bison, "it would be a tragedy to purposefully bring in hybrids," says Jim Derr , who has spent decades researching bison genetics at Texas A&M University."