Definition of breed

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Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance..

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Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.
Struggled :: Strude (n.) A stock of breeding mares.
Conceive :: Conceive (v. i.) To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
Half Blood :: Half blood (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.
Fashion :: Fashion (n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion..
Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Twinner :: Twinner (n.) One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.
Ayrshire :: Ayrshire (n.) One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk..
Gentry :: Gentry (a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry..
Lurcher :: Lurcher (n.) One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers..
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves..
Migrate :: Migrate (v. i.) To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds..
Grade :: Grade (v. t.) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
Herdbook :: Herdbook (n.) A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or herd register..
Merino :: Merino (n.) A breed of sheep originally from Spain, noted for the fineness of its wool..
Breed :: Breed (v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
Mongrel :: Mongrel (n.) The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed..
Crossbreed :: Crossbreed (n.) A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks..
Jersey :: Jersey (n.) One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.
Heronry :: Heronry (n.) A place where herons breed.
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