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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inbred
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an inbred genetic defect
▪ There is an inbred racism in some parts of the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He is intelligent, sensitive with an inbred understanding of children - and untrained.
▪ He seemed a courtly gentleman with the inbred manners of a diplomat.
▪ Nuclei were isolated from cell lines or spleen from transgenic animals or inbred mouse strains.
▪ The breeding system adopted depends on the number of animals required and whether they are of an inbred or outbred strain.
▪ They are the inbred offspring of ten years of music press ingestion.
▪ This, I said, would prove his commitment to overcoming his inbred bourgeois morality.
▪ Underneath the bar graph are listed the inbred mouse strains or transgenics from which the analysis was made.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inbred

Inbred \In"bred`\, a. Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. ``Inbred sentiments.''
--Burke.

Inbred

Inbreed \In*breed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inbred; p. pr. & vb. n. Inbreeding.] [Cf. Imbreed.]

  1. To produce or generate within.
    --Bp. Reynolds.

    To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue.
    --Milton.

  2. To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inbred

1590s, "native," also "inherent by nature," from in + bred. The genetic sense is from 1892 (also see inbreeding).

Wiktionary
inbred
  1. 1 bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. 2 (often pejorative) having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding 3 (context genetics English) describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci. n. (context vulgar English) An inbred individual v

  2. (en-past of: inbreed)

WordNet
inbred

See inbreed

inbred
  1. adj. produced by inbreeding [ant: outbred]

  2. normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good" [syn: connatural, inborn, native]

Wikipedia
Inbred (film)

Inbred is a 2011 British horror film directed by Alex Chandon and co-written with Paul Shrimpton and produced by Margaret Milner Schmueck.

Inbred (disambiguation)

Inbred means produced by inbreeding.

It may also refer to:

  • Inbred, an insult
  • The Inbreds, a rock band
  • Inbred (film), a horror film
  • Inbred Mountain, a musical album

Usage examples of "inbred".

The ones overseen by such inbred monarchs as King Rudolf the Dribbler and King Clyde the Numblingly, Mind-Bogglingly Stupid.

We were ambushed, and the Sergeant got a bad hurt, and would have lost his scalp, but for a sort of inbred turn I took to the weapon.

Brahman, or crossed with Brahman, but there were still some wild scrubber bulls and inbred shorthorn cows to be dealt with, and their influence eradicated from the herd.

His partner was a pretty, very hairy swinger whose clothes reeked with inbred filth, but who smelled lovely from the perfume daubed behind his ears.

Klein-Schul, Pierce recalled that fertility was another inbred Hutterite quality, and one which would have made them candidates for deportation even if they had not resisted recruitment of their Trainable children.

We are greeted by barking dogs and what can only be described as a seriously inbred Lapp leprechaun.

These, like the cats, the rats, the mice, the fish, the birds, the crickets, and every other form of animal life, were inbred, linebred, outcrossed, shown, trained, and pampered.

The only thing that kept them from marching to the city jail to demand the head of Leslie Olin Sewek was an inbred Minnesotan aversion to creating a spectacle and a windchill factor of sixty-two degrees below zero.

Heterocephalus colony is too inbred, an occasional male becomes much heavier and is reluctant to mate, even when his own queen is in oestrus and receptive.

Sky City with the same mixture of expectation and inbred Swiftian skepticism with which Gulliver came to the flying island of Laputa.

And to stare at that woebegone inbred face and suddenly hear a phrase in pure Yinglish knocked the breath out of every person there simultaneously.

These are inbred remnants of the true cavemen, the ones who gave rise to all the legends of under-earth dwellers and fierce, misshapen trolls who steal babies.

A long line of ancestors, collaterals, and in-Iaws, the intertwined and inbred aristocracy of New England, would turn in their graves.

We suppose that since the addlepated Munsterians will no doubt insist on yet another Norman bastard of the same FitzGerald ilk, with all that house's inbred faults, this FitzRobert is as good choice as any of them.

I raised a formal Question in Council—the second meeting, that is, not the first—but Hobart claimed I was just trying to embarrass him, use it as an excuse for family rivalry, and one of his bootlickers got up and spouted a whole involved line about genetic susceptibility and the inbred genome of Fleet families.