breeder
饲养员,繁殖者,培育者,养殖者
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Definitions
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- : an animal, plant, or person that produces offspring or reproduces.
- : a person who raises animals or plants primarily for breeding purposes.
- : Also called breeder reactor. Energy. a nuclear reactor in which more fissile material is produced than is consumed.
- : Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a term used by gay people to refer to a heterosexual person.
- : Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a term used especially by child-free people to refer to a biological parent.
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Of course, not every at-home animal breeder shoots to make a profit off this.
Mini ponies go for a cool $4,000 if purchased from a specialist breeder.
The miniature-pony breeder from Australia attributes her love of the series to one particular heroine.
The landowner and racehorse breeder and his artist wife, Gemma, are close friends of the Middleton family.
It would be nice to feel—as he put it the other day—that he had “a breeder” among his grandchildren.
The Reformation reduced woman to the position of a mere breeder of children.
The work is equally valuable to the farmer who keeps but few pigs, and to the breeder on an extensive scale.
Not only this, she is the brooder and breeder of all primitive doctrines, the conceiver and the mother of all human creeds.
Without acknowledge of an animal's points, it is in vain that the breeder can hope for improvement.
A day as hot and still as this one was a regular weather breeder; there ought to be rain before night.