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Words related to breed

Related / Similar Words: strain, stock, half-breed, multiply, cover, engender, spawn

Definition:

a lineage or race of people;

a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep";

a special lineage; "a breed of Americans";

half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents);

have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity";

of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs";

copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare";

call forth;

Hyponyms: bloodstock, pedigree, metis, pullulate, mongrelize, mongrelise, crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed

Grouped Verbs: brood, hatch, cover, incubate

Member Meronyms: species

Derivational Morphology: multiply, stock, generation, multiplication, propagation, half-breed, strain, reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life, breeder, stock breeder

Language Translations:
Bulgarian: отглеждам		Catalan: criar
Dutch: broeden		Finnish: lisääntyä
German: aufziehen		Indonesian: besar
Japanese: 育てる		Korean: 낳다
Polish: płodzić		Russian: плодиться
Spanish: criar

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