A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation.
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A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer.
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Offensive A person of mixed racial descent; a half-breed.
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A group of usually domesticated animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters.
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A number of persons of the same stock.
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idiom
A scab Regional To stir up trouble for oneself.
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Breed up a storm New England To become cloudy.
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verb-transitive
To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers.
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To bring about; engender: "Admission of guilt tends to breed public sympathy” ( Jonathan Alter).
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To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle.
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To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.
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To inseminate or impregnate; mate with.
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verb-intransitive
To copulate; mate.
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To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds.
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To produce offspring.
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verb
To produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation.
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To propagate (plants or animals) sexually and usually under controlled conditions .
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To inculcate by training .
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To mate with .
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To produce (a fissionable element) by bombarding a nonfissionable element with neutrons from a radioactive element.
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