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breed

/breed/US // brid //UK // (briːd) //

育种,繁殖,培育,饲养

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v.有主动词 verb
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    bred, breed·ing.

    • : to produce; procreate; engender.
    • : to produce by mating; propagate sexually; reproduce: Ten mice were bred in the laboratory.
    • : Horticulture. to cause to reproduce by controlled pollination.to improve by controlled pollination and selection.
    • : to raise: He breeds longhorns on the ranch.
    • : to cause or be the source of; engender; give rise to: Dirt breeds disease. Stagnant water breeds mosquitoes.
    • : to develop by training or education; bring up; rear: He was born and bred a gentleman.
    • : Energy. to produce more fissile nuclear fuel than is consumed in a reactor.
    • : to impregnate; mate: Breed a strong mare with a fast stallion and hope for a Derby winner.
v.无主动词 verb
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    bred, breed·ing.

    • : to produce offspring: Many animals breed in the spring.
    • : to be engendered or produced; grow; develop: Bacteria will not breed in alcohol.
    • : to cause the birth of young, as in raising stock.
    • : to be pregnant.
n.名词 noun
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    • : Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
    • : lineage; stock; strain: She comes from a fine breed of people.
    • : sort; kind; group: Scholars are a quiet breed.
    • : Disparaging and Offensive. half-breed.

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Examples

  • No, those dogs were trained to do that behavior, wouldn’t naturally have done that behavior, and there was nothing about the breed which is different.

  • Holstein cattle, which almost always carry horned genes, are highly productive dairy cows, so using conventional breeding to introduce hornless genes from less productive breeds can compromise the Holstein’s productivity.

  • Brazil’s herds are dominated by Nelore, a hardy breed that lacks the carcass and meat quality of breeds like Angus but can withstand high heat and humidity.

  • Scientists will have to look at the methylomes of different dog breeds to see if they differ.

  • This mathematical exercise gives an objective and seemingly precise number for the genetic contribution from each breed.

  • The attempt to “breed back” the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.

  • A male and female who do most of the mating dominate packs, and younger subordinates only breed occasionally.

  • They seem to be a slightly different breed from those in New York or London.

  • Perhaps, once in awhile, scarcity will breed rational thinking, too.

  • And I am truly preserving something unique because those garments are like a dying breed.

  • He was a new breed, that parson, a genuwine no-two-alike, come-one-in-a-box kind.

  • When Mac started Gregory back he told him that we would be along presently, then sat himself down on a rock and watched the breed.

  • But such a thing as happened this morning must breed doubts and suspicions in a woman who has had the experience I have had.

  • None breed, however, in Guernsey itself, or in any of the little rocky islands immediately surrounding it.

  • It stays on through the winter, but never remains to breed as it does regularly at Lundy Island.