inbred

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plant or animal produced by inbreeding.
  2. A person born of incest. vulgar
    — Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of inbreed form-of,participle,past
    — People discovered that the Belgian hare of those days was a very delicate animal and that it was subject to many diseases. It had been inbred so long in order to produce show animals that its vitality was nearly gone.
形容词 adj.
  1. Bred within; innate.
    — We who from daily experience knew Miss Smedley like a book—were we not only too well aware that she had neither accomplishments nor charms—no characteristic, in fact, but an inbred viciousness of temper and disposition?
  2. Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding. derogatory,often
  3. Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.
  4. Insular or self-contained, primarily interacting with and drawing upon one another. figuratively
    — The Lavender Quill Society, that group of in-bred Manhattan gay writers who believe that gay literature begins and ends in their clique (outsiders need not apply for membership).

词形变化

more inbred comparative most inbred superlative inbreds plural

词汇关系

近义词
indigenous
衍生词
inbredness noninbred

词源

词源 1
From the past participle of inbreed, equivalent to in- + bred.
词源 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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