To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. To breed in and in. See under {Breed}, v. i. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Inbreeding — is breeding between close relatives, whether plant or animal. If practiced repeatedly, it leads to an increase in homozygosity of a population. A higher frequency of recessive, deleterious traits in homozygous form in a population can, over time … Wikipedia
inbreeding — [ BRÍ ] s. n. (biol.) încrucişare selectivă între indivizi înrudiţi genetic; consangvinizare. (< engl. inbreeding) Trimis de raduborza, 17.03.2009. Sursa: MDN … Dicționar Român
inbreeding — inbreeding. См. инцухт. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
inbreeding — (n.) c.1842, from IN (Cf. in) + BREEDING (Cf. breeding) … Etymology dictionary
inbreeding — /in bree ding/, n. Biol. the mating of closely related individuals, as cousins, sire daughter, brother sister, or self fertilized plants, which tends to increase the number of individuals that are homozygous for a trait and therefore increases… … Universalium
inbreeding — [[t]ɪ̱nbriːdɪŋ[/t]] N UNCOUNT Inbreeding is the repeated breeding of closely related animals or people. In the 19th century, inbreeding nearly led to the extinction of the royal family … English dictionary
inbreeding — /ˈɪnbridɪŋ/ (say inbreeding) noun the mating of related individuals such as cousins, sire daughter, brother sister, or self fertilised plants. Inbreeding automatically fixes the genes, producing a homozygote …
Inbreeding — The mating of two closely related persons. Also called consanguinity. * * * 1. Mating between organisms that are genetically more closely related than organisms selected at random from the population. 2. A practice of mating animals that are… … Medical dictionary
inbreeding — in|breed|ing [ˈınbri:dıŋ] n [U] when children, animals, or plants are produced from closely related members of the same family ▪ He was born with a rare bone disease, probably the result of aristocratic inbreeding … Dictionary of contemporary English
inbreeding — n. the production of offspring by parents who are closely related; for example, who are first cousins or siblings. The amount of inbreeding in a population is largely controlled by culture and tradition. Compare: outbreeding … The new mediacal dictionary
