interbreed
verb
in·ter·breed
ˌin-tər-ˈbrēd 
interbred
ˌin-tər-ˈbred
; interbreeding
; interbreeding
: to cause to breed together
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Past carbon dioxide spikes were correlated with interbreeding between humans and other hominins.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Recently the fossil record, too, has yielded support for the possibility of interbreeding within Africa.
—Michael F. Hammer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
The waxing coyote populations sporadically interbred with the waning wolf populations, giving rise to hybrid eastern coyotes.
—Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
This is important since wolves and coyotes can and do interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
—Ret Talbot, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
These in turn evolved into Neanderthals and Denisovans — though the two continued to interbreed for some time, as the remains at Denisova Cave reveal.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2021
The absence of a signal for interbreeding in any single independent region of the genome, such as in mtDNA, does not necessarily mean that other regions of the genome also lack signs of interbreeding.
—Michael F. Hammer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
Later generations thought otherwise, proposing that organisms needed to be capable of interbreeding to share the same specification.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2023
The Famous Denisova Cave Denisova Cave is a well-trodden site home to 20-plus layers of excavation, where ancient humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans once lived and interbred, to varying degrees.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Recently the fossil record, too, has yielded support for the possibility of interbreeding within Africa.
—Michael F. Hammer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
The waxing coyote populations sporadically interbred with the waning wolf populations, giving rise to hybrid eastern coyotes.
—Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
This is important since wolves and coyotes can and do interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
—Ret Talbot, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
These in turn evolved into Neanderthals and Denisovans — though the two continued to interbreed for some time, as the remains at Denisova Cave reveal.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2021
The absence of a signal for interbreeding in any single independent region of the genome, such as in mtDNA, does not necessarily mean that other regions of the genome also lack signs of interbreeding.
—Michael F. Hammer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
Later generations thought otherwise, proposing that organisms needed to be capable of interbreeding to share the same specification.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2023
The Famous Denisova Cave Denisova Cave is a well-trodden site home to 20-plus layers of excavation, where ancient humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans once lived and interbred, to varying degrees.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
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1859, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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interbreed
verb
in·ter·breed
ˌint-ər-ˈbrēd
interbred
-ˈbred
; interbreeding
; interbreeding
: to cause to breed together
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