- present participle of interbreed.
interbreeding
Example Sentences
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The researchers also detected significant interbreeding among the frogs.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026
But over hundreds of millennia, human migrations resulted in interbreeding, researchers say.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
As well as showing up interbreeding with different populations, embedded in the ancient DNA are hugely important details on how people coped with key historical moments, such epidemics, shifts in diet, urbanisation, and industrialisation.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
Duplicated and rearranged genes can account for some of this knottiness, Renner explains, as can interbreeding among these diverging plants.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024
Geographic isolation might have solved some of the “grey finch” problem—by restricting interbreeding between particular variants.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
