Breed meaning, definition and synonyms

1. Verb

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

To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.

To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.

To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.

To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.

To raise, as any kind of stock.

To produce or obtain by any natural process.

To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.

To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.

To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

To raise a breed; to get progeny.

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

Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.

A number produced at once; a brood.

a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep"

Vocabulary classified under Biology