(v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
(v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
(v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
(v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
(v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock.
(v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process.
(v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
(v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
(v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
(v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny.
(n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
(n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
(n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(3) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(4) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(5) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(6) The results of this study suggested that there are differences in hormone concentrations that are related to size rather than being the result of differences in physiological maturity of different breeds of cattle.
(7) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(8) The major plasma lipoprotein of both breeds was high density lipoprotein (HDL) with some low density lipoprotein (LDL) and no very low density lipoprotein (VLDL).
(9) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(10) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(11) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
(12) Urea was determined by means of diacetyl monoxim in the blood cells of 80 cockerels of the initial breed White Leghorn, commercial hybrid Primant.
(13) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
(14) A comparative study was performed for isoelectric and electrophoretic spectra blood serum albumin of parental breeds of chickens and their heterosis hybrids --broiler cocks.
(15) A higher ratio of excitatory to inhibitory neurotransmitter amino acids was always found in all the CNS regions studied in the aggressive breed.
(16) Bactrian camels (63 female female, 8 male male) were used in the breeding season to determine the factors that will induce ovulation.
(17) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(18) In Chinese Meishan pig embryonic mortality appears relatively low compared to European breeds.
(19) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(20) Experimentally, the newborn and juvenile matured white A breeded mice of both sexes were used.
Crossbred
Definition:
(a.) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The crossbreds and the straightbred S had higher WS than straightbred A.
(2) The crossbreds of SLP and EP (SLEP) and RBC and EP (RBEP) had higher body weight and efficiency of food utilisation than the local parents.
(3) Conformation and condition scores were similar for crossbred groups among spring-born calves, whereas conformation and condition scores decreased as proportion of Brahman breeding increased among fall-born calves.
(4) The B X T ewes were superior to the average of the B and T ewes for ovulation rate (P less than .05) and litter size (P less than .01); there was no direct estimate of embryo survival, but the results indirectly indicate superiority of the crossbreds for this component also.
(5) Records of birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and condition score (CS) from 1,467 Brahman and Brahman X Angus crossbred calves from Brahman and crossbred Brahman sires and Brahman, crossbred Brahman and Angus dams were collected at the Subtropical Agricultural Research Station, Brooksville, Florida, from 1971 to 1982.
(6) Holstein and crossbred steers fed alfalfa haylage had significantly lower average daily gain, feed efficiency, dressing percentage, and empty body fat and required more days on feed to reach slaughter end points, but had higher total feed energy intake available for production.
(7) Four crossbred wether lambs (38 kg) with permanent ruminal and abomasal cannulae were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square arrangement of treatments to determine the effect of feeding frequency (FF) on forage fiber and N utilization.
(8) In Trial 1, feedlot performance of 200 crossbred steers (average initial BW 296 kg) was evaluated during a 133-d period.
(9) Eight crossbred wethers were fed two levels of Ca, designated high Ca (.82%) or normal Ca (.48%), with four treatment each, three of which differed in dietary cation-anion balance.
(10) Crossbred cows exhibited a 7.5 d shorter (P less than .05) interval from parturition to first service, but did not exhibit a shorter interval from parturition to conception (P greater than .10).
(11) Purebred Friesian calves out of Jersey recipients were Friesian weight (male, 44.8 kg; female, 37.4 kg) and contrary to experience with crossbreds caused severe dystocia problems.
(12) Five crossbred beef steers (329 kg) were used in a 5 x 5 Latin square experiment with 14-d periods to determine the effects of supplementation with high-nitrogen (N) feeds alone or mixed with tallow on sites of digestion with a basal diet of bermudagrass hay.
(13) Post-weaning growth and carcass characteristics of 318 straightbred (139 Angus and 179 Hereford) and 77 crossbred steers (beef X beef, dairy X beef, and 3-way crosses) were compared under three different feeding regimes.
(14) These results indicate that corn silage, because of greater energy concentration, was a more desirable forage in feedlot diets composed of less than or equal to 40% forage and that protein type (soybean meal and fish meal) in growing diets is not an important factor in feedlot performance or carcass traits of Holstein or crossbred steers that are fed these diets.
(15) In crossbred mice tubal transport was not significantly altered by antibody treatment.
(16) Meishan, Fengjing, Minzhu, and Duroc boars were mated by AI to crossbred gilts to compare the sire breeds for effects on productivity of their mates and performance of their progeny.
(17) Forty-one Holstein and 6 Holstein crossbred heifers, 6 to 8 mo of age, were used to determine the effect of plane of nutrition on growth and mammogenesis prior to and during puberty.
(18) Twelve Charolais-crossbred steers (256 kg) received one of three treatments: nonimplanted controls (C), implanted initially and at 84 days with 36 mg zeranol (Ralgro, R) and implanted initially and at 84 days with 200 mg of progesterone and 20 mg of estradiol benzoate (Synovex-S,S).
(19) Late morulae to blastocysts (n = 80) were collected nonsurgically from naturally mated, estrous-synchronized, superovulated crossbred beef cows.
(20) When rats from the Wistar, Long-Evans, and Sprague-Dawley strains were crossbred and then selectively outbred for high (ANT) and low (AT) sensitivity to ethanol-induced impairment of motor performance, no differences were observed in the ethanol sensitivity of the hippocampal population spike between these two strains.