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Definition: Purebred |
PurebredAdjective1. Bred for many generation from member of a recognized breed or strain. Noun1. A pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | A -- is a dog whose sire (father) and dam (mother) belong to the same breed. . . . . A dog show is an exhibition in which pure-bred dogs compete for points. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: PurebredSynonyms: pureblood (n), thoroughbred (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: crossbred (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Purebred |
| English words defined with "purebred": bloodline ♦ half-blooded, half-bred, half-breed ♦ pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded ♦ studbook ♦ thoroughbred. (references) |
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 | Purebred Hereford bull, Willow Creek Ranch, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Elmo Temple, Chaffee County, Colorado rehabilitation client with one of his purebred bucks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Young heifer shows improvement over scrub mother due to purebred sire. Fremont County, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Trade | Bolivia | Purebred livestock imported for breeding purposes also require a pedigree certificate. (references) |
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| "Purebred" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Purebred" is used about 16 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
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 "purebred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صريح النسب, أصيل (evening, genuine, original, proper, quaint, sincere, thoroughbred, trueborn, well bred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чистокръвен (full-blooded, hot-blooded, pedigree, pure, straight-bred, thoroughbred, true-bred, well bred), породист (highbred, pedigree, thoroughbred, well bred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 纯血统. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | èistokrevný (full-blooded, pedigree, thoroughbred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پاک نژاد, جانوریاگیاه خوش نژاد, اصیل (Genteel, Gentleman, Highborn, Noble, Thoroughbred, Unfeigned, Wellborn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pur-sang, de race, chien pur (pure-bred dog), chien de race pure (pure-bred dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reinrassig (blood, pedigree, pedigreed, pure blooded, pure race, thoroughbred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ'זע ט"ור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | di razza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "種 (thoroughbred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅ"しゅ (Imperial visit, observance, thoroughbred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urebredpay raça pura. (various references) чистокровный (blooded, blue-blooded, full-blooded, thoroughbred, true born, true-bred). (various references) rasan (thoroughbred), čistokrvan (thoroughbred, true born). (various references) pura sangre (blood horse, pureblood, well bred), de pura sangre (blooded, pureblood, thoroughbred), de pura raza (pureblood, thoroughbred), animal de pura raza (pureblood). (various references) renrasig (pure-bred), rasren (thoroughbred). (various references) สัตว์หรือพืชที่เกิ"จากการผสมในสายพันธุ์เ"ียวกัน, ที่เกิ"มาจากการผสมในสายพันธุ์เ"ียวกัน. (various references) safkan hayvan, safkan (blooded, clean-bred, pedigree, pedigreed, pure, pure blooded, pureblooded, thoroughbred, true), cins hayvan (pedigree), cins (blooded, breed, cast, class, diversity, gender, genus, kind, pedigree, pedigreed, persuasion, pure blooded, pureblooded, quality, race, sex, species, stripe, type, variety, well bred). (various references) thuần chủng (clean-bred), không lai (clean-bred, pur sang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "purebred": purebreds. (additional references) | |
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"Purebred" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Perleberg, pesebre, Presbrey, purebread, purebreed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "purebred" (pronounced pyuh"rbre"d) |
| 4 | -b r e" d | bread, bred, interbred, thoroughbred. |
| 3 | -r e" d | dread, read, red, Redd, retread, shred, spread, thread, tread, unread, widespread. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-p-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: perdure. | |
-2 letters: burped, burred, perdue, pureed, purred, rebred. | |
-3 letters: brede, breed, drupe, duper, erred, perdu, preed, prude, puree, purer, redub, ruder, rupee. | |
-4 letters: bedu, beep, beer, bred, bree, burd, burp, burr, deep, deer, dere, dree, drub, dupe, dure, durr, peed, peer, pree, pure, purr, rede, reed, rube, rude, rued, ruer. | |
-5 letters: bed, bee, brr, bud. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-p-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: perturbed, purebreds. | |
+2 letters: perdurable. | |
+3 letters: prenumbered, unperturbed. | |
+4 letters: reproducible, superscribed. | |
+5 letters: reproducibles. | |
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