Look up: breeding

1. breeding
   Type: Term Pronunciation: brēd′ing Definitions: 1. Selected mating of individuals to produce a strain that is desirable or of scientific interest.
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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 hybridization
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4. breeding
   technique of growing and maintaining cells,tissues and organs under artificial conditions Category: Medicine • the science or art of changing the constitution of a population of plants or animals through sexual reproduction Category: Medicine • conversion when the conversion ...
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5. 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. �...
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. breeding
   noun elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
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10. 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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11. breeding
    conversion in a nuclear reactor when the conversion ratio is greater than unity
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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 o...
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15. 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...
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16. Breeding
    Act of copulation between a stallion and a mare
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17. Breeding
    `Breeding` is the reproduction, that is, producing of offspring, usually animals or plants: `Breeding` may also refer to: Science: People: Media: Locations: Pornography: See also:
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18. 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.<ref name="Looney">--> Track listing: # "Hello" – 4:10 # "Hero Po...
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