Difference between Interbred and Inbred

What is the difference between Interbred and Inbred?

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

Interbred

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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 inbreedingdescribing 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

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

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