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Definition: Inbreeding |
InbreedingNoun1. The act of mating closely related individuals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inbreeding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The mating of plants or non-human animals which are closely related genetically. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Inbreeding occurs in animals. For example, the cheetah is a highly inbred species, probably because of a population bottleneck in the species' recent past. Inbreeding is also deliberately induced in laboratory mice in order to guarantee a consistent and uniform animal model. Human genetic diversity is also limited, indicating a population bottleneck some 100,000 years ago.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Inbreeding."
Crosswords: Inbreeding |
| English words defined with "inbreeding": breeding ♦ inbred. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inbreeding": Animals, Inbred Strains ♦ inbred line ♦ PLANT BREEDER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inbreeding": Inbreed. (references) |
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| "Inbreeding" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inbreeding" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "inbreeding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | брак между близки родственици, инбридинг. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 近亲繁殖. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | indavl (close breeding, incestuous breeding), blodbeslægtet forplantning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | inteelt (close breeding), consanguïne voortplanting. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sukusiitos (close breeding), sisäsiitos (close breeding, incestuous breeding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sélection consanguine, reproduction en consanguinité, consanguinité, élevage en consanguinité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | inzucht (close breeding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συγγένεια αίματος, επιλογή συγγενείας εξ αίματος (close breeding), αιματοσυγγενής αναπαραγωγή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riproduzione in consanguineit , allevamento in consanguineit , accoppiamento fra consanguinei (close breeding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ynsheelraghey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inbreedingay selecção consanguínea (close breeding), cruzamento consanguíneo (close breeding), consanguinidade (consanguinity, kinship). (various references) endogamie, încrucişare selectivã. (various references) parenje životinja u bliskom srodstvu. (various references) reproducción consanguínea, procreación en consaguinidad (close breeding), endogamia (endogamy), de endogamia, consanguinidad (blood relationship, consanguinity). (various references) inavel (close breeding, incestuous breeding). (various references) aynı soydan çiftleştirme. (various references) інбридинг, родинне спаровування. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "inbreeding": inbreedings. (additional references) | |
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"Inbreeding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inbreedings, unbleeding, unbreaking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inbreeding" (pronounced i'nbrē"ding) |
| 6 | -b r ē" d i ng | breeding. |
| 5 | -r ē" d i ng | misreading, Reding, rereading. |
| 4 | -ē" d i ng | acceding, bleeding, ceding, conceding, exceeding, feeding, heeding, impeding, interceding, kneading, leading, misleading, needing, pleading, preceding, proceeding, receding, seceding, seeding, speeding, stampeding, succeeding, superseding, weeding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, brooding, budding, building, cascading, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impending, imploding, including, intending, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, plodding, portending, pounding, precluding, presiding, pretending, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, recommending, recording, Redding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, spellbinding, spending, spreading, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-g-i-i-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: rebinding. | |
-2 letters: beginner, beringed, breeding, indigene, nidering. | |
-3 letters: bending, binding, birding, brining, dingier, dreeing, energid, engined, ginnier, grinned, inbeing, inbreed, indigen, needing, rebegin, reeding, reigned, reining, rending. | |
-4 letters: begird, bender, benign, biding, binder, binged, binger, binned, birdie, bridge, brined, denier, dieing, dinger, dining, dinner, edgier, ending, endrin, engine, engird, gender, ginned, ginner, girned, inbred, indene, indign, nereid, niding, rebind, reding, reined, riding, ringed. | |
-5 letters: begin, beige, being, benne, benni, bider, bindi, binge, brede, breed, bride, brine, bring, deign, diene, diner, dinge, dirge, edger, eider, ender, genie, genii, genre, gibed, giber, grebe, greed, green, gride, grind, indie, indri, inned, inner, iring, rebid, reign, renig, renin, ridge, rigid. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-g-i-i-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: befriending, inbreedings. | |
+2 letters: interbedding, linebreeding. | |
+3 letters: bioengineered, interbreeding, linebreedings. | |
+4 letters: disencumbering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 62 72 65 65 64 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -... .-. . . -.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100101 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n b r e e d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0062 0072 0065 0065 0064 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43806884717170758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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