inbred
IPA: ˈɪnbrɛd
noun
- (vulgar) An inbred individual.
adjective
- Bred within; innate.
- (often derogatory) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
- (genetics) Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.
- (figurative, of a group) Insular or self-contained, primarily interacting with and drawing upon one another.
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Examples of "inbred" in Sentences
- In captivity, the species is very inbred.
- The British are not inbred but ethnically diverse.
- They weren't inbred and yet they have the same issues.
- As a Chinese, we are not a bunch of men and women inbred on an island.
- Inbreeding is the more common term, as in, here, he is slightly inbred.
- The result may be referred to as a hybrid inbred or inbred hybrid strain.
- He was raised in a ditch along with his other inbred brothers and sisters.
- This study further suggests that the Australian population is quite inbred.
- The duo adopted an inbred redneck persona inspired by the movie Deliverance.
- But even those are not inbred to anywhere near the same level as animal breeds.
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