breeding
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
breeding/ˈbriːdɪŋ/
▶noun good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
'breeding' also found in these Oxford entries:
ant
- aviculture
- bachelor
- barnacle goose
- bean goose
- bee-keeping
- breeding ground
- brood
- cattery
- cross
- cross-breed
- cultivar
- demoiselle crane
- eclipse
- egret
- eugenics
- farm
- ferruginous duck
- fieldfare
- gannetry
- gullery
- heronry
- homozygote
- husbandry
- ill-bred
- kennel
- lek
- little auk
- macaroni penguin
- March hare
- Maris Piper
- mate
- matrix
- nene
- nuptial
- participle
- pisciculture
- pomarine skua
- put
- rookery
- ruff
- scrofula
- serve
- shag
- sire
- Slavonian grebe
- snow bunting
- social
- stand
