Word Meaning

Meaning of breed

- To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
- To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
- To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
- To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
- To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
- To raise, as any kind of stock.
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
- To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
- To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
- To raise a breed; to get progeny.
- A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
- Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
- A number produced at once; a brood.

Crossword clue for breed

- Animal type
- Lineage of brood replaces ducks with ease
- Produce offspring
- Propagate
- Raise (livestock)
- Raise at stud
- Raise pedigree
- Rear
- Reproduce type of animal
- Reproduce with date after craft beer
- Strain to multiply
- Variety within an animal species