- present participle of interbreed.
interbreeding
Example Sentences
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The discovery reinforces a growing view of human evolution as a long history of encounters and interbreeding among many related hominin populations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
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
"Are they co-operative, is there interbreeding, are the locals able to make their way into the elite?"
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
Jenkin’s central problem with Darwin was this: if hereditary traits kept “blending” with each other in every generation, then what would keep any variation from being diluted out immediately by interbreeding?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
