breed

n. kind, sort, species, race, stock, pedigree

v. reproduce; raise animals; guide, nurture; cause

See Breed (song) for the song by Nirvana. See Breed (video game) for the video game by Brat Designs. A breed is a domesticated subspecies or infrasubspecies of an animal. For a type to be recognised as a breed, there should be a viable true-breeding population. The term may also be used as a verb, meaning action intended to produce offspring. The breeder makes it his or her trade to engage in plant breeding and the maintenance and creation of breeds of animals suitable for domestication.
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Noun
1. a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"
(hypernym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(derivation) multiply
2. a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep"
(synonym) strain, stock
(hypernym) variety
(hyponym) bloodstock
(member-holonym) species
3. half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)
(synonym) half-breed
(hypernym) half-caste
(hyponym) metis
(derivation) multiply
4. a lineage or race of people
(synonym) strain
(hypernym) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
(derivation) multiply
Verb
1. call forth
(synonym) engender, spawn
(hypernym) cause, do, make
2. copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"
(synonym) cover
(hypernym) copulate, mate, pair, couple
(verb-group) brood, hatch, cover, incubate
(classification) animal husbandry
3. of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
(hypernym) produce, make, create
(hyponym) mongrelize, mongrelise
(derivation) strain, stock
4. have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"
(synonym) multiply
(hypernym) reproduce, procreate, multiply
(hyponym) pullulate
(derivation) half-breed

adv. broadly, widely

adj. broad, wide; large, roomy

(v. t.)
To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
  

(v. t.)
To raise, as any kind of stock.
  

(v. t.)
To produce or obtain by any natural process.
  

(v. t.)
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
  

(v. t.)
To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
  

(v. t.)
To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
  

(v. t.)
To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
  

(v. i.)
To raise a breed; to get progeny.
  

(v. i.)
To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
  

(v. i.)
To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
  

(v. i.)
To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
  

(n.)
Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
  

(n.)
A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
  

(n.)
A number produced at once; a brood.