breed

noun

1. 1.

   A special variety of domesticated animals within a species

   “He experimented on a particular breed of white rats.”

2. 2.

   All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

3. 3.

   A race or lineage; offspring or issue.

4. 4.

   informal

   A group of people with shared characteristics.

verb

1. 1.

   To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

2. 2.

   transitive

   To give birth to; to be the native place of.

3. 3.

   of animals

   To mate.

4. 4.

   Have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)

5. 5.

   transitive

   To keep (animals) and have (them) reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.

6. 6.

   transitiveoften with to or with

   To arrange the mating of (specific animals).

Inflected forms

Grammatical variations of the same word.

• breedingnounInflected form

  Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.

• breedernounInflected form

  A person who breeds animals.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• breeder reactornounCompound term

  A nuclear reactor that produces more fissile material than it burns.

• breeding groundnounCompound term

  A place where animals breed.

• ill-breedingnounCompound term

  Impoliteness resulting from ignorance.

• stock breedernounCompound term

  A person who breeds animals.

• cattle breedingnounCompound term

  Breeding cattle.

• dog breedingnounCompound term

  Breeding dogs.