interbreed
verb (used with object)
to crossbreed (a plant or animal).
had interbred
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past perfectof interbreed.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The DNA of the Mende people showed that their ancestors had interbred with Stem2 people just 25,000 years ago.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
Prof Peter Keightley from the University of Edinburgh, though largely convinced by the results, was less surprised that the finches had interbred so extensively.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2015
He said there was some evidence that humans had lived alongside Neanderthals in Europe and had interbred.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2015
If it had interbred with an ancestor of the Denisovans and the Sima de los Huesos hominins, it could explain the relationship between the two groups of remains.
From Nature ● Mar. 26, 2014
Bats, obviously, can fly over water, but since the new species had interbred with no others in the group called Bismarck's Isles, these bits of land must have once been much farther apart.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2012
