outbreeding

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The breeding of unrelated (or only distantly related) individuals. countable,uncountable
    — Outbreeding is a positive thing, because of the wider gene pool.
  2. The mating of people from different groups (especially as a result of social proscription). countable,uncountable
    — Outbreeding hinders earnest studies of archaeogenetics, making it thorny to know precisely about ancient populations, migrations and linguistic groups.

词形变化

outbreedings plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English breeding
English outbreeding
From out- + breeding.
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