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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The breeding of related individuals within an isolated or a closed group of organisms or people.
- n. The continued breeding of closely related individuals so as to preserve desirable traits in a stock.
Wiktionary
- n. breeding between members of a relatively small population, especially one in which most members are related
- v. present participle of inbreed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of mating closely related individuals
Examples
“I think that inbreeding is dictated by the structure of academia, at least in economics.”
“WASHINGTON (CNN) – Vice President Dick Cheney apologized Monday for what his spokeswoman called "an inappropriate attempt at humor" that implied that inbreeding is common among West Virginians, a remark that elicited outrage from the state's senior senator.”
“And here we see a perfect example of why inbreeding is unhealthy for Mankind.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - And now, I leave you with this!
“I guess inbreeding is okay in that part of Canada?”
Hillbilly Wars – For the Record @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
“The only diffrence between line breeding and inbreeding is monatery.”
Think Progress » Cheney Casts Deciding Vote to Pass Budget That Hammers the Poor
“I think the problem isn 't so much Republican ideology, it's Republican inbreeding, which is wide-spread in most of the red states.”
“Just like cousins who marry cousins, lack of genetic diversity, also called inbreeding, can cause populations to be less healthy and robust than non-inbred populations.”
USA Today: Scientific advance may keep Tasmanian devils alive
“West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd called the inbreeding joke "an insult to all Americans.”
“Thus among our horned cattle, the Jerseys have been brought to a point where, from the iniquitous inbreeding, which is against what may be called the morality of nature, they are fearfully subjected to tuberculosis.”
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization
“This was most commonly achieved through the inbreeding were the result -- and often had tragic consequences. is the most notorious example of royal intermarriage.”
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