- breed - a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"
--1 is a kind of lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
Derived form: verb breed4 - breed, strain, stock - a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep"
--2 is a kind of variety; animal group
--2 is a member of species
--2 has particulars: bloodstock; pedigreeDerived forms: verb breed3, verb breed4 - half-breed, breed - half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)
--3 is a kind of half-caste
--3 has particulars: metisDerived form: verb breed4 - breed, strain - a lineage or race of people
--4 is a kind of ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
Derived form: verb breed4
- engender, breed, spawn - call forth
--1 is one way to cause, do, make
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- breed, cover - copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"
--2 is one way to copulate, mate, pair, couple
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- breed - of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
--3 is one way to produce, make, create
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun breed2, noun breeder1, noun breeding4
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- breed, multiply - have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"
--4 is one way to reproduce, procreate, multiply
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun breed3, noun breed1, noun breed2, noun breed4, noun breeding5
Something ----s