inbred

  1. Adjective.  bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.
  2. Adjective.  (often pejorative) having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
  3. Adjective.  (genetics) describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.
  4. Verb.  (past of, inbreed) .
  5. Noun.  An inbred individual.

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