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breed
Found in thesaurus: line, blood, pedigree, bloodline, animal group, derivation, make, pair, produce, multiply
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breed
n.
kind, sort, species, race, stock, pedigree
v.
reproduce; raise animals; guide, nurture; cause
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Breed
A breed is a specific group of domestic animals having appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other organisms of the same species and that were arrived at through selective breeding. Despite the centrality of the idea of "breeds" to animal husbandry and agriculture, no single, scientifically accepted definition of the term exists. A breed is therefore not an objective or biologically verifiable classification but is instead a term of art amongst groups of breeders who share a consensus around what qualities make some members of a given species members of a nameable subset.
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breed
Noun
1. a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"
(hypernym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(derivation) multiply
2. 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"
(synonym) strain, stock
(hypernym) variety
(hyponym) bloodstock
(member-holonym) species
3. half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)
(synonym) half-breed
(hypernym) half-caste
(hyponym) metis
(derivation) multiply
4. a lineage or race of people
(synonym) strain
(hypernym) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
(derivation) multiply
Verb
1. call forth
(synonym) engender, spawn
(hypernym) cause, do, make
2. copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"
(synonym) cover
(hypernym) copulate, mate, pair, couple
(verb-group) brood, hatch, cover, incubate
(classification) animal husbandry
3. of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
(hypernym) produce, make, create
(hyponym) mongrelize, mongrelise
(derivation) strain, stock
4. have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"
(synonym) multiply
(hypernym) reproduce, procreate, multiply
(hyponym) pullulate
(derivation) half-breed
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breed
adv.
broadly, widely
adj.
broad, wide; large, roomy
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breed
n.
rasa; plemeno
v.
rozmnožovat se; chovat; pěstovat; přinášet; způsobovat
