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crossbred
 
Adjective crossbred has 2 senses
  1. crossbred - bred from a mixture of breeds or strains
    Antonyms:     purebred, full-blooded, full-blood, blooded, pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred
  2. crossbred, interbred - bred of parents of different races or strains
    Antonym: inbred (indirect, via outbred)
Noun crossbred has 1 sense
  1. crossbred - a hybrid (especially an animal produced by a cross between two pure breeds)
    --1 is a kind of     hybrid, crossbreed, cross
Verb crossbreed has 1 sense
  1. crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed - breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
    --1 is one way to breed
    Derived form: noun crossbreed1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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