inter se
Americannoun
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(italics) among or between themselves.
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Animal Husbandry. the mating of closely related animals to each other.
adverb
Etymology
Origin of inter se
First recorded in 1885–90, inter se is from Latin inter sē
Example Sentences
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The "inner college" will therefore merely stress the contacts inter se which students at large universities do not often enjoy.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the general belief that hybrids are sterile, or, at least, that they are incapable of propagation inter se.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
A group of individuals which, while fully fertile inter se, are sterile with all other individuals—or, at any rate, do not generate fully fertile hybrids.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
He did so in a publication entitled: "Farrago Confusanearum et inter se Dissidentium Opinionum de Coena Domini—Medley of Confused and Mutually Dissenting Opinions on the Lord's Supper, compiled from the books of the Sacramentarians," 1552.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
Relations inter se of the Members of the League not Signatories to the Protocol.
From The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller
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