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breeder

/bree-der/US // ˈbri dər //UK // (ˈbriːdə) //

饲养员,繁殖者,培育者,养殖者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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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Examples

  • 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.