interbreed

Other forms of interbreed

past tense or participle

interbred

present participle

interbreeding·

third person

interbreeds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about interbreed

What does interbreed mean?

interbreed means "breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties".

How many syllables are in interbreed?

interbreed has 3 syllables: in-ter-breed. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for interbreed?

Close synonyms include crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is interbreed a common word?

interbreed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.