| 单词 | highly bred |
| 释义 | > as lemmashighly bred highly bred adj. = high-bred adj.; (in later use also) (esp. of an animal or plant) inbred (inbred adj. 3), esp. to the point of producing deleterious effects. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [adjective] > of descent or breeding ykynde1420 generous1574 well-bred1585 well-descended1591 well nutrimenteda1592 high-descended1600 well-derived1600 high-bred1613 highly bred1625 high-blooded1632 of (good, noble, etc.) familya1639 pedigree1861 1625 W. Morrell New-Eng. 18 The consort of his bed must be of blood Coequall, when an of-spring comes as good, and highly bred in all high parts of state. 1756 Hist. Reynard Fox 8 It..is a common case with many beasts, as nobly born, perhaps, and highly bred as you can boast to be. 1817 M. Edgeworth Ormond xix, in Harrington & Ormond III. 15 Ever after, when he saw a disposition to it in any woman, however highly bred, highly accomplished, or highly gifted, he considered her as a person of mean mind. 1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 448/2 She was bred and is now in foal to Col. West's highly-bred young horse Contractor. 1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 182 The highly bred dogs are mostly physical and mental defectives. 2001 J. Babinard in G. C. Nelson Genetically Modified Organisms in Agric. xxvi. 271 Many crop varieties of sugarcane, tomato, potato, rice, corn, oats and other highly bred crops contain genes or chromosome segments derived from different wild relative species. < as lemmas |
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