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
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 Romanes, George John
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 Romanes, George John
It is to be remembered that in this portion of the discussion consideration is given only to the relations inter se of the Signatories to the Protocol.
From The Geneva Protocol by Miller, David Hunter
The precise form which these subcortical combinations will assume in response to any particular excitation is in large measure determined by the structural connections inter se....
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
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