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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Normally existing at birth
Example:
mankind's connatural sense of the good
Synonyms:
connatural; inborn; inbred
Classified under:
Similar:
native (belonging to one by birth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Produced by inbreeding
Classified under:
Similar:
interbred (bred of closely related parents)
Antonym:
outbred (bred of parents not closely related; having parents of different classes or tribes)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb inbreed
Context examples:
Derived from inbred Hartley stocks at the Eastman Kodak Company and Montreal's Institute Armand Frappier, having undergone spontaneous mutation that led to hairlessness and athymicity.
(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
Derived by Curtiss and Dunning (1926) at Columbia University by crossing an inbred August rat with an inbred Copenhagen rat, to Heston (1945) and then to the NIH in 1950.
(ACI/Seg, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
It accounts for 14% of all mouse inbred strain laboratory usage.
(C57BL/6 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)
Congenic strains are produced by transferring a mutation from one genetic background to a specific inbred strain through repeated backcrossing.
(Congenic Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
