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UK
/bɹˈiːdɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈbɹidɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹidɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
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helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
they debated whether nature or nurture was more important -
the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
a woman of breeding and refinement - the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
ADJECTIVE
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producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring
the breeding population
retained a few bulls for breeding purposes
How To Use breeding 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.
- It has an immense bill, and in breeding season its distensible gular pouch is olive to red.
- Inbreeding may account for the fact that far fewer than half of all breeding mares foal each year.
- The methodology is applicable to the investigation of parentage for all progeny developed from parental mating without subsequent generations of inbreeding.
- Previous data support a significant relationship between sea-surface temperature and the breeding success of krill-loving gentoo penguins.
- They show high numbers of breeding waders in contrast to unmanaged unkeepered moors, which had very low numbers.
- Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and ferrets, moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
- Some of the most charismatic cloud forest species such as the resplendent quetzal (Pharomacrus mocinno) and three-wattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata) are equally dependent on the seasonal moist forests as they migrate annually to these moist forests at the completion of their breeding season. Costa Rican seasonal moist forests
- It is also nationally important for breeding African spoonbills (Platalea alba) and purple swamp-hens (Porphyrio porphyrio). Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna
- Their rattling calls reverberate along waterways throughout the breeding season, and their flashing wings are apparent year-round. CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News
