breed
noun
1. a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- he experimented on a particular breed of white rats
Similar word(s): stock, strain
Definition categories: group, variety
2. a special type
- Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs
Definition categories: thought, type
Sentences with breed as a noun:
- a breed of tulip
- a breed of animal
- People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.
verb
1. call forth
Similar word(s): engender, spawn
Definition categories: creation, cause, do, make
2. copulate with a female, used especially of horses
Similar word(s): cover
Definition categories: contact, copulate, couple, mate, pair
3. cause to procreate (animals)
- She breeds dogs
Definition categories: contact, create, make, produce
4. have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
- pandas rarely breed in captivity
Similar word(s): multiply
Definition categories: body, multiply, procreate, reproduce
Sentences with breed as a verb:
- a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men
- She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.
- He tries to breed blue roses.
- disaster breeds famine;