breed | English to English Dictionary

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breed

(br/i/d )

a special variety of domesticated animals within a species(noun.group)

Example:
He experimented on a particular breed of white rats.

Synonym:
stock, strain

source: wordnet30
a special type(noun.cognition)

Example:
Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs.

source: wordnet30
A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.(noun)

source: webster1913

call forth(verb.creation)

Synonym:
engender, spawn

source: wordnet30
copulate with a female, used especially of horses(verb.contact)

Synonym:
cover

source: wordnet30
cause to procreate (animals)(verb.contact)

Example:
She breeds dogs.

source: wordnet30
have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)(verb.body)

Example:
Pandas rarely breed in captivity.

Synonym:
multiply

source: wordnet30
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.(verb)

source: webster1913
To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.(verb)

source: webster1913

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