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stockbreeding

/stok-bree-ding/US // ˈstɒkˌbri dɪŋ //

畜牧业,牧业,畜牧养殖,畜禽养殖

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.

Examples

  • Perhaps the clasped hands and the ecstatic look were hardly necessary, for even so interesting a subject as stockbreeding.

  • He settled down to the congenial occupation of stockbreeding, on what was then considered to be a large scale.

  • The preference of the earlier Spanish settlers for stockbreeding also limited the agricultural area.

  • Stockbreeding was very much easier and according to their ideas required no particular exertion on their part.