half-breed

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noun

A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).

Except for a few half-breeds in the town, there are no native Christians in the island of Timor.

It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.

A hybrid animal or plant.

adj

having dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry

Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits

noun

A member of the Half-Breeds, a former Republican political party during the Gilded Age.

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adjective — (of animals) having only one purebred parent

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Except for a few half-breeds in the town, there are no native Christians in the island of Timor.

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It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.

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The half-breeds or Metis along the Saskatchewan River asked that they be given a legal title to the land which they occupied. […] The half-breeds found that constitutional agitation was hopeless and b

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