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US
/ˈbɹid/
]
[ UK /bɹˈiːd/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈiːd/ ]
VERB
-
copulate with a female, used especially of horses
The horse covers the mare - call forth
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have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
pandas rarely breed in captivity -
cause to procreate (animals)
She breeds dogs
NOUN
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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 -
a special type
Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs
How To Use breed In A Sentence
- This white-naped mangabey monkey was born at The Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy, and is part of an international breeding program to keep the species alive.
- A lot of hen breeders put chicks down if they have splayed legs, but she is way too cute for that. Times, Sunday Times
- These cattle are one of the purest breeds in Britain.
- It has an immense bill, and in breeding season its distensible gular pouch is olive to red.
- A second cluster of dogs consists of mastiff-like breeds, including the bulldog, Rottweiler, and boxer.
- At Laufen (Oflag VII-C) and later at Eichstätt (Oflag VII-B—close to the limestone quarry where the first archaeopteryx remains had been found), he watched birds that came through the camp wire to breed. A Year on the Wing
- A wild beast does not at once become tame, or a new breed arise in an instant.
- Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat. Cold Mountain
- Some game bird breeders even debeak the birds or attach "peepers" or googles to their eyes to keep them attacking each other in the packed pens. (see: caged hen egg operations.) Is your state breeding birds for Dick Cheney style hunting like Illinois?
- Now we either remove the horns early or rear polled breeds.