Word.ws English Dictionary

outbreedings

outbreedings is the plural of outbreeding.

Meaning of outbreeding

Noun

outbreeding (countable and uncountable, plural outbreedings)

  1. The breeding of unrelated (or only distantly related) individuals.
    • Outbreeding is a positive thing, because of the wider gene pool.
  2. The mating of people from different groups (especially as a result of social proscription).
    • Outbreeding hinders earnest studies of archaeogenetics, making it thorny to know precisely about ancient populations, migrations and linguistic groups.

Questions about outbreedings

What is outbreedings the plural of?
Outbreedings is the plural of outbreeding.

Words near outbreedings in the dictionary

  1. outbred
  2. outbreed
  3. outbreeder
  4. outbreeders
  5. outbreeding
  6. outbreedings
  7. outbreeds
  8. outbribe
  9. outbribed
  10. outbribes
  11. outbribing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outbreedings (page history and authors); outbreeding (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “outbreedings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/outbreedings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.