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Meanings of miscegenation in English
Pejorative term referring to interethnic relationships resulting in multiethnic offspring.
Related terms
Portuguese
miscigenação Spanish
cruce Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons).
Synonyms
Examples for "interbreeding"
Examples for "interbreeding"
1
Pure-bred wildcats are under threat from interbreeding with domestic and feral animals.
2
With interbreeding now well-established the intriguing question is, what came of it?
3
Moreover, the potential interbreeding between these two Ascaris species has been demonstrated.
4
The high diversity among Cambodian animals may result from interbreeding with rhesus macaques.
5
Not enough time has passed, however, for interbreeding to become impossible.
1
However, the subgroup of farmers practicing crossbreeding showed a tolerance to high susceptibility.
2
Zeebo is a cockapoo, a noble, albeit minuscule creation of crossbreeding.
3
Most of them cross animals without a specific crossbreeding scheme.
4
This family actually created the variety through crossbreeding garlic seeds.
5
By crossbreeding and fusing several strains of bacteria, it converts polyester into prune yogurt.
Usage of miscegenation in English
1
I do not advocate intermarriage; I do not defend miscegenation.
2
There was a furious regional reaction to claims of miscegenation.
3
The only case where it is often invoked in the human race is in miscegenation.
4
Lovecraft's hysterical terror of miscegenation recurs throughout his work.
5
It makes Polo look like a festival of miscegenation.
6
Hawaiians will be saved from extinction by miscegenation.
7
He calls attention to such injustices as miscegenation, lynching, unfairness of the courts, and discrimination in traveling.
8
These historians argued that Jefferson couldn't have had an affair with Hemings because he disapproved of miscegenation.
9
The Immorality Act made extramarital sex illegal in any circumstances but more severely punished if it involved miscegenation.
10
The one great phase of the race question agitating the country to-day is that of intermarriage and miscegenation.
11
The other night when you began to talk of the crime of miscegenation, I thought I should die.
12
The only other problem of restrictive eugenics which it seems necessary to consider is that offered by miscegenation.
13
Then I told him that miscegenation was against Lunarite custom and he turned rather bitter and metallic himself.
14
It predicted that the Nordic race would face extinction in Iceland within a hundred years if miscegenation continued.
15
The life of Florida Clayton is interesting in that it illustrates the miscegenation prevalent during the days of slavery.
16
It was said that the homogenous nation and lack of miscegenation made Iceland a living laboratory for genetic research.
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Translations for miscegenation
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Catalan
Miscegenation through the time