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breeding (noun)

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  • breeding — noun 1 activity of producing plants/animals ADJECTIVE ▪ animal, horse, livestock, plant, etc. ▪ selective ▪ Certain characteristics can be developed through selective breeding …   Collocations dictionary

  • breeding — ► NOUN ▪ upper class good manners regarded as being passed on by heredity …   English terms dictionary

  • breeding — /ˈbridɪŋ / (say breeding) noun 1. the act of someone or something that breeds. 2. the rearing of livestock to improve their quality or merit. 3. Horticulture the production of new forms by selection, crossing, and hybridising. 4. nurture;… …  

  • breeding ground — breeding ,ground noun count 1. ) breeding ground for/of a situation or place in which bad things can easily begin to develop: The university was a breeding ground for political radicals. a ) used about good things: High school football has always …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • breeding — noun (U) 1 the act or process of animals producing babies: breeding season (=the time of the year when an animal has babies) 2 the activity of keeping animals or plants in order to produce new or better types: the breeding of pedigree dogs |… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • breeding — noun 1) the birds pair for breeding Syn: reproduction, procreation; mating 2) the breeding of laboratory rats Syn: rearing, raising, nurturing 3) her aristocratic breeding Syn …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • breeding ground — noun (C) 1 a place or situation where something bad or harmful grows and develops (+ for): overcrowded slums that are breeding grounds for crime 2 a place where animals go in order to breed: In spring, the birds migrate north to their breeding… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • breeding range — noun : the geographic area over which breeding is carried on by individual pairs or breeding populations of a particular kind of animal …   Useful english dictionary

  • breeding — noun Date: 14th century 1. the action or process of bearing or generating 2. ancestry 3. a. archaic education < she had her breeding at my father s charge Shakespeare > b. training in or …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • breeding ground — noun Date: 1630 1. the place to which animals go to breed 2. a place or set of circumstances suitable for or favorable to growth and development < hurricane breeding grounds > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • breeding-ground — noun a) A place or region where animals go to breed. What, wonder the denigrators, is county cricket for (if you ignore for a moment the small matter of providing a breeding ground for the Test team)? b) A place or institution seen as creating… …   Wiktionary

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