interbreeding

in·ter·breed  (ntr-brd)

v. in·ter·bred (-brd), in·ter·breed·ing, in·ter·breeds

v.intr.

1. To breed with another kind or species; hybridize.

2. To breed within a narrow range or with closely related types or individuals; inbreed.

v.tr.

To cause to interbreed.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	interbreeding - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, crossing, cross mating, pairing, sexual union, union, coupling, conjugation - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" dihybrid cross - hybridization using two traits with two alleles each monohybrid cross - hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) reciprocal cross, reciprocal - hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype test-cross, testcross - a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
	2.	interbreeding - reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) miscegenation, crossbreeding facts of life, procreation, reproduction, breeding - the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring