- present participle of interbreed.
interbreeding
Example Sentences
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Now, researchers at UC Berkeley have identified specific regions of the modern human genome that came from these unidentified ancestors and estimated when the interbreeding occurred.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Yet the genomes of living people also contained signs of much older episodes of interbreeding.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
But over hundreds of millennia, human migrations resulted in interbreeding, researchers say.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
"Are they co-operative, is there interbreeding, are the locals able to make their way into the elite?"
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
Farmers had been using this phenomenon for millennia—breeding and interbreeding animals to produce natural variants, and selecting these variants over multiple generations.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
