half-blooded

• Adjetivo usado para descrever uma pessoa de origem mista, especialmente de pais de diferentes raças, etnias ou espécies; tem uso histórico ou literário e hoje é considerado datado e potencialmente ofensivo.

An archaic adjective describing someone of mixed ancestry, often used in historical or literary contexts; now considered outdated and potentially offensive.

1. Having one purebred parentC1formal

   Describes an animal, especially a horse or dog, that has only one parent of a purebred lineage.

   Meio-sangue

   • The half-blooded foal inherited traits from both its thoroughbred sire and its mixed-breed dam.
   • Breeders sometimes prefer half-blooded dogs for their hybrid vigor.
   • The horse was registered as half-blooded because only its father was a purebred Arabian.

   Sinônimoshalf-bred

   Antônimosfull-bloodedpurebredthoroughbred