Definitions
the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
Word origin
From Middle English breedyng, bredynge (“gestation, incubation, propagation, hatching; engineering, formation, development, growth”), equivalent to breed + -ing.
Used in a sentence
“Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true.”
“She had her breeding at my father's charge.”
“Your dog has good breeding.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Animal reproduction”8 letters
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