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US
/ˈpjʊɹˈbɹɛd/
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[ UK /pjˈʊɹɛbɹəd/ ]
[ UK /pjˈʊɹɛbɹəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain
NOUN
- a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses
How To Use purebred In A Sentence
- The Lusitano is a breed of horse that dates back to around 1700BC, which makes it one of the earliest equine purebreds still in existence today.
- Breeds were predominantly British purebreds or British crossbreds.
- Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.
- So much of it so far has been about the pet store and buying purebreds, and that desire to have a ‘clean’ dog, both in history and parentage, is part of the problem. Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs Book 14 » Manga Worth Reading
- They prefer a mongrel vitality to a purebred stillness, a jumbled collage to a more settled composition.
- Rapid phenotypic selection has resulted in canine breeds as diverse as the tall, refined borzoi and the short, stocky pug; no other species of animal displays the range of phenotypic diversity seen in purebred dogs.
- The offspring of a mating between two purebred dogs of different breeds is a mongrel, a mutt.
- I think we'll probably take another look at some purebred options, but I'm also going to try to reintroduce the idea of a rescue dog or a mutt from a shelter.
- When you look at his herd now, you see reds, blacks, browns, a few obvious Holsteins and a very few purebred Jerseys.
- When I asked the owner he said this is a genetic problem with purebreds.