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Breeding

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Fruitful 84% connected

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitfu…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fruitful 84% connected

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitfu…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 3

Elegance 76% connected

Alt. of Elegancy

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Production 76% connected

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sex 76% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Generation 76% connected

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Miscegenation 76% connected

A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Multiplication 76% connected

The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Propagation 76% connected

The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Breed 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Breed 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Procreate 74% connected

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Procreate 74% connected

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 11

Education 92% connected

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Fosterage 92% connected

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fostering 92% connected

of Foster

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Genteelness 92% connected

The quality of being genteel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gentility 92% connected

Good extraction; dignity of birth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nurture 92% connected

The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Procreation 92% connected

The act of begetting; generation and production of young.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Raising 92% connected

of Raise

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rearing 92% connected

of Rear

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reproduction 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Training 92% connected

of Train

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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