Definition of breeding

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

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Dysgenesic :: Dysgenesic (a.) Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another..
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals..
Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve..
Stallmen :: Stallion (n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.
Illiberal :: Illiberal (a.) Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous..
Thoroughbred :: Thoroughbred (a.) Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like..
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners.
Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
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..
Studied :: Stud-horse (n.) A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding..
Genteel :: Genteel (a.) Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address..
Indecorous :: Indecorous (a.) Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct..
Cross :: Cross (n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind..
Struggled :: Strude (n.) A stock of breeding mares.
True-bred :: True-bred (a.) Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman..
Stirpes :: Stirpiculture (n.) The breeding of special stocks or races.
Hylodes :: Hylodes (n.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes..
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.
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