BREED

Breed

A breed is a specific group of domestic animals or plants having homogeneous appearance, homogeneous behavior, and other characteristics that distinguish it from other animals or plants of the same species and that were arrived at through selective breeding. Despite the centrality of the idea of "breeds" to animal husbandry, no scientifically accepted definition of the term exists. A breed is therefore not an objective or biologically verifiable classification but is instead a term of art amongst groups of breeders who share a consensus around what qualities make some members of a given species members of a nameable subset. The term is distinguished from ...

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breed

Noun

  1. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
    a breed of tulip
    a breed of animal
  2. A race or lineage.
  3. A group of people with shared characteristics.
    People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.

Verb

  1. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
  2. To give birth to; to be the native place of.
    a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men
  3. Of animals, to mate.
  4. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
  5. To arrange the mating of specific animals.
  6. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
  7. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
  8. To yield or result in.
  9. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
  10. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up.
  11. To produce or obtain by any natural process.


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