Unscramble breeding

Definition of breeding

adjective:

• producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; "the breeding population", "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes".

noun:

• elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression. Synonyms: genteelness, gentility.
• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement". Synonyms: education, training.
• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important". Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing.
• the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization.
• the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring. Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction.

verb:

• call forth. Synonyms: breed, engender, spawn.
• copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare". Synonyms: breed, cover.
• cause to procreate (animals); "She breeds dogs". Synonyms: breed.
• have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); "pandas rarely breed in captivity", "These bacteria reproduce". Synonyms: breed, multiply.

Related words

autosexing, cross, crossbreed, crossbreeding, generation, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed, interbreeding, miscegenation, mongrelise, mongrelize, multiplication, propagation, pullulate.

Words nearby

bleeding.

Rhymes with

beading, bleeding, ceding, conceding, exceeding, feeding, impeding, inbreeding, leading, misleading, misreading, pleading, preceding, proceeding, proceeding, reading, receding, receding, speeding, succeeding.