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Adjective breeding has 1 sense
- breeding - producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes"
Antonym: unfruitful (indirect, via fruitful)
Noun breeding has 5 senses
- breeding, genteelness, gentility - elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
--1 is a kind of elegance
- education, training, breeding - the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement"
--2 is a kind of upbringing
- breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing - raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
--3 is a kind of socialization, socialisation, acculturation, enculturation
- breeding - the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
--4 is a kind of production
--4 has particulars: autosexing; cattle breeding; dog breeding; horse breeding
- reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life - the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
--5 is a kind of sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
--5 has particulars:
Verb breed has 4 senses
- engender, breed, spawn - call forth
--1 is one way to cause, do, make
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- breed, cover - copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"
--2 is one way to copulate, mate, pair, couple
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- breed - of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
--3 is one way to produce, make, create
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- breed, multiply - have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"
--4 is one way to reproduce, procreate, multiply
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