Definitions for Breeding

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Breeding breed·ing

Spelling: [bree-ding]

IPA: /ˈbri dɪŋ/

Breeding is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in Breeding (bdeeginr).

Definitions for Breeding

noun

1. the producing of offspring.
2. the improvement or development of breeds of livestock, as by selective mating and hybridization.
3. Horticulture. the production of new forms by selection, crossing, and hybridizing.
4. training; nurture:
5. the result of upbringing or training as shown in behavior and manners; manners, especially good manners:
6. Energy. the production in a nuclear reactor of more fissile material than is consumed.
7. Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
8. lineage; stock; strain:
9. sort; kind; group:
10. Disparaging and Offensive. half-breed (def 1).

verb (used with object)

1. to produce (offspring); procreate; engender.
2. to produce by mating; propagate sexually; reproduce:
3. Horticulture. to cause to reproduce by controlled pollination. to improve by controlled pollination and selection.
4. to raise (cattle, sheep, etc.):
5. to cause or be the source of; engender; give rise to:
6. to develop by training or education; bring up; rear:
7. Energy. to produce more fissile nuclear fuel than is consumed in a reactor.
8. to impregnate; mate:

verb (used without object)

1. to produce offspring:
2. to be engendered or produced; grow; develop:
3. to cause the birth of young, as in raising stock.
4. to be pregnant.

Origin of Breeding

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at breed, -ing¹

Examples for Breeding

breeding a resistant strain can take five generations of plants, and 15 years.

Her ignorance of all breeding is amusing, but then I think she has a natural elegance.

Pray be seated, but really I am forgetting the commonest rules of breeding.

It is only in the begetting of men that breeding from the worst stocks may be said to be the rule.

Is not the quality of dogs improved by breeding from the good and eliminating the bad?

The improvement in breeding and raising live-stock must not be omitted.

The critters have the propensity to devour their babies if alarmed and so require a calm environment for breeding.

Its adaptability and breeding capabilities ensured that it would be selected for mass production on an unimaginable scale.

“Hence, there might be a net benefit, at least to some females, of breeding within the natal group,” the researchers speculate.

Even when bred in captivity, Leahy said breeding facilities are often horrendous, resembling factory farming.