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
Some half-bred Penguins and Labradors were again crossed with Penguins, and subsequently bred by me inter se, and they were extremely fertile.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. by Charles Darwin
According to Mr. Wallace, therefore, our criterion of a species is to be the heredity of peculiar characters, combined, perhaps, with a more or less exclusive fertility of the component individuals inter se.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
It was presently followed by a soft and friendly chatter, as if the birds were having an interview that was exclusively inter se.
From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
Similarly, the relations of non-Members of the League inter se will continue, as they are now, to be governed neither by the Covenant nor by the Protocol.
From The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller
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