How to use breed in a sentence. To keep and take care of animals or plants in order to produce more animals or plants of a particular kind To produce young animals, birds, etc To produce offspring by sexual reproduction Idiom a dying breed (definition of breed from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press) A breed is a specific group of breedable domestic animals having homogeneous appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other organisms of the same species.
To produce or reproduce by giving birth or hatching To raise animals or plants, often to produce new or improved types Breed a new type of corn. There are 14 meanings listed in oed's entry for the word breed, three of which are labelled obsolete, and two of which are considered offensive See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. Discover everything about the word breed in english
A type of dog, sheep, pig, etc A type of person or thing If you breed animals or plants, you keep them for the purpose of producing more animals or plants with particular qualities, in a controlled way He lived alone, breeding horses and dogs He used to breed dogs for the police.
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