The meaning of BREED is to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation. How to use breed in a sentence.

A breed is a specific group of breedable domestic animals having homogeneous appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other …

Idiom a dying breed (Definition of breed from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

BREED meaning: 1 : to keep and take care of animals or plants in order to produce more animals or plants of a particular kind; 2 : to produce young animals, birds, etc. to produce offspring by …

1. To produce or reproduce by giving birth or hatching: Mosquitoes breed in water. 2. To raise animals or plants, often to produce new or improved types: breed a new type of corn.

If you breed animals or plants, you keep them for the purpose of producing more animals or plants with particular qualities, in a controlled way. He lived alone, breeding horses and dogs. He …

There are 14 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word breed, three of which are labelled obsolete, and two of which are considered offensive. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, …

breed′a•ble, adj. 1. 2. beget, bear, generate. 5. promote, occasion, foster, produce, induce, develop. 14. family, pedigree, line.

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