Definition of Overbreeding

1. Verb. (present participle of overbreed) ¹

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Definition of Overbreeding

1. overbreed [v] - See also: overbreed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbreeding

overbowing
overbows
overbrake
overbraked
overbrakes
overbraking
overbrand
overbranded
overbranding
overbreadth
overbreak
overbreathing
overbreathings
overbred
overbreed
overbreeding (current term)
overbreeds
overbridge
overbridges
overbrief
overbriefed
overbriefing
overbriefs
overbright
overbrim
overbrimmed
overbrimming
overbrims
overbroad
overbrow

Literary usage of Overbreeding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Changing America: Studies in Contemporary Society by Edward Alsworth Ross (1912)
"... wherever overbreeding has cheapened humanity. In the teeming Orient common people seem as little considered as clay pigeons at the shooting traps. ..."

2. History of the English Landed Interest: Its Customs, Laws and Agriculture by Russell M. (Russell Montague) Garnier (1898)
"Marshall, a land agent of Norfolk, who wrote the Rural Economy in 1786, protests against the practice of overbreeding all kinds of game ..."

3. History of the English Landed Interest: Its Customs, Laws and Agriculture by Russell Montague Garnier (1908)
"Marshall, a land agent of Norfolk, who wrote the Rural Economy in 1786, protests against the practice of overbreeding all kinds of game, and Defoe in his ..."

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