BREED | Definition and Meaning

Definition of Breed

Breed

Definition/Meaning

(noun)

A group of animals or plants with similar characteristics.

e.g. The farmer raised a new breed of cattle that was resistant to disease.

(verb)

(biology) to mate and then produce offspring by hatching or gestation;

e.g. Animals will seek to breed, it's a biology thing.

(verb)

(biology) to propagate (plants or animals) sexually and usually under controlled conditions;

e.g. It's not impossible to breed hybrid roses in your own backyard: it involves carefully collecting pollen from one variety, and then transferring it to the stamens of another (using a fine paintbrush is recommended). At the end of the growing season you will have bred hybrid seeds.

(verb)

to inculcate by training;

e.g. She was bred to be treated like a princess.

(verb)

to produce, to engender, to cause to happen, especially over a period of time;

e.g. It is every family's struggle in poverty not to let the situation breed violence.

(verb)

(physics) to produce (a fissionable element) by bombarding a nonfissionable element with neutrons from a radioactive element;

e.g. It is one of the frontiers of physics, to get successful fusion breeding for sustainable carbon-free power.

(noun)

a sort or kind of person or thing;

e.g. Entrepreneurs, especially those whizzes with good tech ideas, are a breed apart from the rest of us.