Definition of breeding

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Breeding (n.) The act or process of generating or bearing.

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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..
Stud :: Stud (n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc..
Illiberal :: Illiberal (a.) Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous..
Struggled :: Strude (n.) A stock of breeding mares.
Studied :: Stud-horse (n.) A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding..
Well-bred :: Well-bred (a.) Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated.
Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc..
Redfin :: Redfin (n.) A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley..
Breeding :: Breeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bree.
Lowbred :: Lowbred (a.) Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark..
Cross :: Cross (n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind..
Pipa :: Pipa (n.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits..
Gentlefolks :: Gentlefolks (n. pl.) Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.
Fashion :: Fashion (n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion..
Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
True-bred :: True-bred (a.) Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman..
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.
Dysgenesic :: Dysgenesic (a.) Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another..
Impertinent :: Impertinent (a.) Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words or actions; as, an impertient coxcomb; an impertient remark..
Dysgenesis :: Dysgenesis (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race..
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