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crossbreed

1 verb
     
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cross‧breed1 past tense and past participle crossbred [intransitive and transitive]
if one breed of plant or animal crossbreeds with another, or if you crossbreed them, they breed, producing a new type of plant or animal
—crossbred adjective
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