verb
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To breed or reproduce with those that are related.
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To breed with those that share common traits or qualities.
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To produce or generate within.
noun
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Breeding between members of a relatively small population, especially one in which most members are related
example
Inbreeding can result in handicapped children.
Examples of inbreeding in a Sentence
She had finally separated Ed from his daughters before inbreeding began.
Bacon-pigs fed on Indian corn degenerate into lardhogs, run down in size and become too small in the bone and less prolific by inbreeding.
Very few analytic models require that these links be defined as biological links, as is required to legitimately calculate inbreeding coefficients.
Some fishes exhibit a marked disinclination to breed, which may be due to hormone treatments and inbreeding.
At the risk of some inbreeding, concubinage ensured that a crown prince was almost always available to succeed a deceased emperor.
The fact that a family of five plus a pilot is a fairly paltry population to launch a new colony, never mind the inbreeding factor, is never addressed.
I replaced the bull last year to prevent inbreeding, but I've been pleased with the offspring.
It's hard to imagine this type of reality television inbreeding, especially with so many very young children involved.
The superiority in physique of the nobles to the common people may have been due in part to a system of massage, the lomi-lomi; it is certainly contrary to the belief in the bad effects of inbreeding - among the upper classes marriage was almost entirely between near relatives.