Synonym: bringing up, education, facts of life, fosterage, fostering, genteelness, gentility, nurture, procreation, raising, rearing, reproduction, training, upbringing. Similar words: speeding, proceeding, exceedingly, breed, crossbreed, succeed in, ceding, preceding. Meaning: [briːdɪŋ] n. 1. elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression 2. the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) 3. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community 4. the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization 5. the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring. adj. producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring.
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91. Rich, well connected Vanessa exudes good breeding, but her passive veneer conceals a passionate nature.
92. It is not only the breeding pair that occupies the territory around a nest.
93. Wild stock Without doubt wild-caught fish are the best for breeding and there are now some very good specimens about.
94. Females come ashore to form breeding colonies, and each will give birth to a single white-coated pup.
95. When winter snow and ice cover the breeding grounds the birds head south to Britain.
96. Supported by four applied science courses covering the biology, entomology and pathology of seeds, and plant breeding.
97. These initial reflections did not include, then, any analogy between artificially and naturally selective breeding.
98. It'sthis seasonal bounty to which the Eleonora's breeding cycle is geared, and the falcons harvest it in abundance.
99. The scheme will turn the 36-acre Regents Park site into a first-rate animal conservation and captive breeding centre.
100. Disturbance and high tides pose the greatest threats to the breeding birds.
101. Breeding your own fish can add a new dimension to your fishkeeping.
102. The breeding range of island species is small and therefore vulnerable, and the species themselves may be quite primitive.
103. Bill got the orchid bug from an old neighbour who encouraged him to to start breeding the plants.
104. Introduce the breeding pair into the tank during late evening.
105. Powys was an area of intensive agriculture, predominantly sheep breeding.
106. At the time, the south west of the province was the only breeding zone for the red Cassel.
107. A plastic dustbin with breeding colony on to which organic waste is showered.
108. Macroconsolidation within organizations provides an ideal breeding ground for insulation, isolation, and illusion.sentence dictionary
109. Other breeding season records, however, indicate that between five and 10 pairs probably breed in most years.
110. Then we bought a lovely horse called Prince with much better breeding than the others.
111. My excuse for the gap in my knowledge is that tufted ducks are rarely vocal except during the breeding period.
112. This selection of foods will soon bring your fish into breeding condition.
113. Yet paradoxically the bird is now giving serious cause for alarm to environmentalists because of a decline in the breeding population.
114. Sexing is by coloration, the male is a reddish colour, deepening during the breeding season.
115. They will be replaced by lesser black-backed gulls, the only Shetland breeding gull which entirely deserts the islands in winter.
116. Generally the commonest small wader of the shore, very variable in size, northern breeding birds larger than southern ones.
117. The San Francisco Zoo has the largest and most successful captive breeding program for bald eagles in the nation, Aikin said.
118. Mate fidelity between breeding seasons is relatively low, so a high proportion of the population re-pair each year.
119. The Kennel Club defend themselves against accusations that they do not do enough to curtail irresponsible breeding.
120. The reason became apparent when she saw a young female come into breeding condition.
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