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Breed

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

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Verb group 8

Brood 84% connected

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Brood 84% connected

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Cover 84% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Cover 84% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Hatch 84% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Hatch 84% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Incubate 84% connected

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Incubate 84% connected

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Copulate 76% connected

Joined; associated; coupled.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Couple 76% connected

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Mate 76% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Multiply 76% connected

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pair 76% connected

A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Fou…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Procreate 76% connected

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Reproduce 76% connected

To produce again.

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Type 76% connected

The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

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Variety 76% connected

The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

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Manner of action 6

Cross 76% connected

A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crossbreed 76% connected

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 stock…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hybridize 76% connected

To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

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Interbreed 76% connected

To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.

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Mongrelize 76% connected

To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.

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Pullulate 76% connected

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

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Narrower term 1

Pedigree 76% connected

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 6

Breeder 74% connected

One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Breeder 74% connected

One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Reproduction 74% connected

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Reproduction 74% connected

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Containing group 1

Species 70% connected

Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 6

Cover 92% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Engender 92% connected

To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Multiply 92% connected

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spawn 92% connected

To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stock 92% connected

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strain 92% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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