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  1. breeding
    Type: Term Pronunciation: brēd′ing Definitions: 1. Selected mating of individuals to produce a strain that is desirable or of scientific interest.
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=12303

  2. Breeding
    The process of reproduction; mating and giving birth to offspring.
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  3. breeding
    [adj] - producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring 2. [n] - elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression 3. [n] - raising someone to be an accepted member of the community 4. [n] - the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridizati...
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  4. Breeding
    Breed'ing noun 1. The act or process of generating or bearing. 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding . 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. �...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/96

  5. breeding
    1. The act or process of generating or bearing. ... 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. ... 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. 'She had her breeding at my father's charge.' (Shak) ... 4. Deportment or behavior in the ex...
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  6. breeding
    adjective producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; `the breeding population`; `retained a few bulls for breeding purposes`
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  7. breeding
    fostering noun helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; `they debated whether nature or nurture was more important`
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  8. breeding
    noun elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
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  9. Breeding
    • (n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners. • (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction. • (n.) The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. • (n.) Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life;...
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  1. Breeding
    Breeding is the reproduction, that is, producing of offspring, usually animals or plants: Breeding may also refer to: ==Science== ==People== ==Media== ==Locations== ==Pornography== ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeding

  2. breeding
    conversion in a nuclear reactor when the conversion ratio is greater than unity
    Found op http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=393-15-56

  3. breeding
    breeding, in agriculture and animal husbandry, propagation of plants and animals by sexual reproduction; usually based on selection of parents with desirable traits to produce improved progeny. In conventional breeding, progeny inherit genes for both desirable and undesirable traits from both parent...
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  4. Breeding
    Breeding is the art of improving races or breeds of domestic animals, or modifying them in certain directions, by continuous attention to their pairing, in conjunction with a similar attention to their feeding and general treatment.
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  5. breeding
    (biology) In biology, the crossing and selection of animals and plants to change the characteristics of an existing breed or cultivar (variety), or to produce a new one. Selective breeding is breeding in which humans choose the parent plants or parent animals. Ever since humans first carried ...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007829.html

  6. breeding
    (physics) In nuclear physics, a process in a reactor in which more fissionable material is produced than is consumed in running the reactor. For example, plutonium-239 can be made from the relatively plentiful (but nonfissile) uranium-238, or uranium-233 can be produced from thoriu...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0016010.html

  7. Breeding
    Act of copulation between a stallion and a mare
    Found op http://www.gaitedhorses.net/Articles/HorseGlossary.html

  8. Breeding
    [EP] Breeding is the first EP by American indie band Dirty Little Rabbits. It was released on August 15, 2007, for sale exclusively through the New York-based record shop Looney Tunes. ==Track listing== ==Personnel== ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeding_(EP)

  9. breeding
    1) Fruitful 2) Populations increase
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/breeding/1

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