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inbreeding(medicine)
inbreeding(encyclopedia)
inbreeding(dictionary)
inbreeding, coefficient of(medicine)
Coefficient of inbreeding(health)
F (coefficient of inbreeding)(health)
coefficient of inbreeding(medicine)
Wright's inbreeding coefficient(medicine)
thus-gate(dictionary)

gate(3) (iou) and inbreeding (oh)


gate(3) (iou)



gate noun2. Now only Scot. & north. Also gait. See also GAIT noun. ME.
[Old Norse gata = Old High German gaa (German Gasse street, lane), Gothic gatwo from Germanic.]
I.
a. A way, a road, a path. ME.
b. A street. Freq. in street-names in Scotland and N. England, as Gallowgate, Kirkgate, etc. LME.
c. Length of way, distance. obsolete exc. Scot. E16.
d. Mining. An underground passage. M18.
A going, a journey, a course. ME.
b. The flight of a bird, esp. a hawk. ME-L17.
c. fig. Proceeding. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
A way, manner, or method of doing or behaving; a peculiar habit. ME.
A right to a run or pasturage for a cow, horse, etc. north. L16.
II. See GAIT noun
Phrases: gang one's gate: see GANG verb1. take gate, take the gate take the road, leave; follow a path or course. that gate that way; in that direction. this gate this way; in this direction.
gateward(s) adverb on the road or way towards; by the direct road: E16.

inbreeding (oh)



when children, animals, or plants are produced from closely related members of the same family
::He was born with a rare bone disease, probably the result of aristocratic inbreeding.