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inbred

  • adjective
  • /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/

Bred within; innate.

Other meanings

  1. Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

  2. Insular or self-contained, primarily interacting with and drawing upon one another.

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