Definition of breeding

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Breeding (n.) The act or process of generating or bearing.

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Fellow :: Fellow (n.) A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
True-bred :: True-bred (a.) Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman..
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals..
Etiquette :: Etiquette (n.) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society..
Migrate :: Migrate (v. i.) To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds..
Pregnant :: Pregnant (a.) Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth..
Indecorous :: Indecorous (a.) Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct..
Struggled :: Strude (n.) A stock of breeding mares.
Vermiparous :: Vermiparous (a.) Producing or breeding worms.
Inbreeding :: Inbreeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inbree.
Illiberal :: Illiberal (a.) Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous..
Studied :: Stud-horse (n.) A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding..
Genteel :: Genteel (a.) Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address..
Hylodes :: Hylodes (n.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes..
Pipa :: Pipa (n.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits..
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners.
Impertinent :: Impertinent (a.) Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words or actions; as, an impertient coxcomb; an impertient remark..
Well-bred :: Well-bred (a.) Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated.
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
Dysgenesic :: Dysgenesic (a.) Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another..
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