Definition of breeding

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Breeding (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.

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Vermination :: Vermination (n.) The generation or breeding of vermin.
Pipa :: Pipa (n.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits..
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..
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners.
Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Penguinery :: Penguinery (n.) A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins..
Nidus :: Nidus (n.) A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed..
True-bred :: True-bred (a.) Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman..
Stocker :: Stockdove (n.) A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees..
Pregnant :: Pregnant (a.) Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth..
Toad :: Toad (n.) Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid..
Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
Kingbird :: Kingbird (n.) A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show
Warren :: Warren (n.) A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.
Fellow :: Fellow (n.) A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
Vermiparous :: Vermiparous (a.) Producing or breeding worms.
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..
Ungentle :: Ungentle (a.) Not gentle; lacking good breeding or delicacy; harsh.
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves..
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