breed
IPA: brˈid
noun
- All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
- A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
- (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
- A surname.
- A town and unincorporated community therein, in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States, named after postmaster George M. Breed.
- (derogatory) Ellipsis of half-breed. [(derogatory) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).]
verb
- To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
- Of animals, to mate.
- To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
- To arrange the mating of specific animals.
- To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
- To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
- To yield or result in.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
- (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
- (transitive) To ejaculate inside; to attempt to impregnate.
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