misbreed

present singular third person misbreeds · participle present misbreeding · participle past misbred · past misbred

1. To breed with the wrong mate, resulting in inferior offspring.

   Humans breed in ways quite similar to those of animals; and if humans misbreed, the results are misbreeds.

   2005, Mark Bennett Feldman, Narrating, Displaying and Spectating the Animal, page 287

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   Discord will occur even in Socrates ' city because the rulers, no matter how wise, will misbreed the guardians, producing inferior guardians, who bring discord with them.

   1994, Brian G. Domino, Social and Political Philosophy, page 29

   So what keeps wolves and coyotes from interbreeding in nature? Obviously, those who don't misbreed will leave more viable offspring.

   2014, David V. McCorkle, Why the Universe Bothers to Exist, page 21

plural misbreeds

1. The inferior offspring that results from misbreeding.

   Humans breed in ways quite similar to those of animals; and if humans misbreed, the results are misbreeds.

   2005, Mark Bennett Feldman, Narrating, Displaying and Spectating the Animal, page 287

   2 more examples

   Some breeders will go as far as to say that if a Jack Russell is not used for field work than it's not a Jack Russell, but a misbreed that looks like a Jack Russell.

   2008, Don Rainwater, Kellie Rainwater, The Jack Russell Terrier Canine Companion Or Demon Dog, page 43

   Beside her, a misbreed named Alaa'kh hunched forward, lifted a too-flexible arm, and tilted a bowl so that the runny gruel could pour down into a gaping mouth that had no chewing apparatus; the gruel simply trickled into his digestive system.

   2015, Kevin J. Anderson, Blood of the Cosmos