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xbreed

xbreed is the abbreviation of crossbreed.

Meaning of crossbreed

Noun

crossbreed (plural crossbreeds)

  1. An organism produced by mating of individuals of different varieties or breeds.
    • When I ask about these dogs, they are described to me as the local mutts, mongrels, pavement specials, crossbreeds.2001, Raymond Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger, Dogs, page 69

See all 4 meanings of crossbreed

Forms of xbreed

Noun
pluralxbreeds
Verb
third-person singular presentxbreeds
present participlexbreeding
past participlexbred
pastxbred

Origin of xbreed

From x- + breed.

Questions about xbreed

What is xbreed the abbreviation of?
Xbreed is the abbreviation of crossbreed.

Words near xbreed in the dictionary

  1. Xboxers
  2. Xboxes
  3. Xboxing
  4. xbred
  5. xbreds
  6. xbreed
  7. xbreeding
  8. xbreeds
  9. Xbrick
  10. Xbricks
  11. XBs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: xbreed (page history and authors); crossbreed (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.

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