Difference between Inbred and Interbred

What is the difference between Inbred and Interbred?

Inbred as a verb is to breed or reproduce with those that are related. while Interbred as a verb is to breed or reproduce within an isolated community.

Inbred

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To breed or reproduce with those that are related.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. (often pejorative) having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An inbred individual

Interbred

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To breed or reproduce within an isolated community.

We hope you now know whether to use Inbred or Interbred in your sentence.

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