Inbreeding

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  • noun. The breeding or mating of closely related individuals.
  • noun. The intentional breeding of closely related individuals so as to preserve desirable traits in a stock.
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  • noun. breeding between members of a relatively small population, especially one in which most members are related
  • verb. Present participle of inbreed.
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  • noun. the act of mating closely related individuals
    • Word Usage
    "I think that inbreeding is dictated by the structure of academia, at least in economics."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    conjugation  coupling  mating  pairing  sexual union  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Reading  acceding  bleeding  breeding  ceding  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abstruseness  acclimatisation  alighting  angulation  bullishness  
    verb-stem
    inbreed  
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