单词 | breedings |
释义 | breed1 of 2verb ˈbrēd bred ˈbred ; breeding transitive verb 1 : to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation yet every mother breeds not sons alike Shakespeare 2 a : beget sense 1 He bred a daughter. b : produce, engender despair often breeds violence 3 biology : to propagate (plants or animals) sexually and usually under controlled conditions bred several strains of corn together to produce a superior variety 4 a : bring up, nurture We were born and bred in the country. b : to inculcate by training breed good manners into one's children 5 a : mate entry 4 sense 3 the business of breeding cattle a horse that is bred to a donkey b : to mate with : inseminate c : impregnate sense 2 delivered her kittens 63 days after being bred 6 physics : to produce (a fissionable element) by bombarding a nonfissionable element with neutrons from a radioactive element intransitive verb 1 a : to produce offspring by sexual union places where mosquitoes breed b : copulate, mate 2 : to propagate animals or plants breed 2 of 2noun1 biology : a group of usually domesticated animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters exotic breeds of cats retrievers and other popular dog breeds 2 : a number of persons of the same stock (see stock entry 1 sense 4a(1)) 3 : class, kind a new breed of athlete such people are a dying breed breedings nounas in pedigrees the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended a family of good breeding that is well respected in the community Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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