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Inbreeding   /ˌɪnbrˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Inbreeding

noun
1.
The act of mating closely related individuals.





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"Inbreeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... blood of the House of Hohenzollern is of a very high order for it is the blood of divinity in human veins. Yet since there is no eugenic control, no selection, the quality of that blood would deteriorate from inbreeding, were there no fresh infusion. Then where better could such blood come than from the men of genius? No man is given the full social privilege of the Royal Level except he who has made some great contribution to the state. This at once marks him as a genius and gives ...
— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings


Words linked to "Inbreeding" :   conjugation, sexual union, coupling, mating, union, pairing


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