breed
Listen:For the verb: "to breed"
| Simple Past: | bred |
| Past Participle: | bred |
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
breed/briːd/
▶verb (past and past part. bred)
- 1 (of animals) mate and then produce offspring.
■ cause (an animal) to produce offspring.
■ develop (a variety of plant or animal).
- 2 bring up to behave in a particular way.
- 3 produce or lead to: success had bred a certain arrogance.
- 4 Physics create (fissile material) by nuclear reaction.
- 1 a distinctive stock of animals or plants within a species, typically one deliberately developed.
- 2 a sort or kind.
'breed' also found in these Oxford entries:
Aberdeen Angus
- Abyssinian
- Affenpinscher
- Afghan hound
- Africander
- Afrikander
- agouti
- Airedale
- Akita
- Alsatian
- angora
- Angus
- Appaloosa
- Arab
- Arabian
- axolotl
- Aylesbury
- Ayrshire
- bandog
- bantam
- barb
- basenji
- basset
- bay
- beagle
- bed
- Bedlington terrier
- beefalo
- Belgian hare
- belted galloway
- best
- bichon frise
- Birman
- black and tan
- blackface
- Blenheim
- bloodhound
- blue heeler
- blue roan
- Border collie
- Border terrier
- borzoi
- bouvier
- boxer
- Brahman
- brahmaputra
- Brahmin
- bred
- broadtail
