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  • 1Breeding season — The breeding season is the most suitable season, usually with favorable conditions and abundant food and water, for breeding among some wild animals and birds (wildlife). Species with a breeding season have naturally evolved to have sexual… …

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  • 2breeding — 1. noun a) The process through which propagation, growth or development occurs. Your dog has had good breeding. b) The act of insemination by natural or artificial means 2. adject …

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  • 3breeding — noun 1) the birds pair for breeding Syn: reproduction, procreation; mating 2) the breeding of laboratory rats Syn: rearing, raising, nurturing 3) her aristocratic breeding Syn …

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  • 4breeding tank — an aquarium set up for breeding fish, free of predators and disease, and with all the necessary conditions in water quality and physical structures for the species being bred …

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  • 5breeding stock — fish reared and stocked for breeding purposes …

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  • 6Breeding — is the producing of offspring, usually animals or plants* Animal breeding, through selected specimens such as dogs, horses, and rabbits * Plant breeding, through selected specimens such as treesBreeding may also refer to:in science: * Biobreeding …

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  • 7Breeding program — Breeding programs help animals to breed and can be good for animals as well as the agricultural economy. A breeding program is the planned breeding of a group of animals or plants, usually involving at least several individuals and extending over …

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  • 8breeding ground — breeding grounds 1) N COUNT: usu sing, with supp, usu N for n If you refer to a situation or place as a breeding ground for something bad such as crime, you mean that this thing can easily develop in that situation or place. Flaws in the system… …

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  • 9Breeding pair — is a pair of animals which cooperate over time to produce offspring. In contrast to any two copulating animals, the term breeding pair indicates some form of a bond between the individuals. For example, many birds mate for a breeding season or… …

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  • 10Breeding back — can be described as either a natural or a human attempt to assemble or re assemble the genes of an extinct subspecies or of a domesticated breed, which may still be present in the larger gene pool of the overall species or other interbreedable… …

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