breeding

  • 61breeding ground — noun (C) 1 a place or situation where something bad or harmful grows and develops (+ for): overcrowded slums that are breeding grounds for crime 2 a place where animals go in order to breed: In spring, the birds migrate north to their breeding… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 62breeding range — noun : the geographic area over which breeding is carried on by individual pairs or breeding populations of a particular kind of animal …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 63breeding ground — noun Date: 1630 1. the place to which animals go to breed 2. a place or set of circumstances suitable for or favorable to growth and development < hurricane breeding grounds > …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 64breeding stock — fish reared and stocked for breeding purposes …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 65breeding 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 …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 66breeding tubercle — usually small, raised, epidermal structures on regions of the head, body, or fin rays where two individuals come in contact. May consist of aggregations of non keratinized epidermal cells, the same with a light, superficial keratinized cuticle,&#8230; …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 67breeding ground — 1. a place where animals breed or to which they return to breed. 2. an environment suitable for or fostering the development of an idea, thing, etc.: a breeding ground for violence. [1930 35] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 68breeding-ground — noun a) A place or region where animals go to breed. What, wonder the denigrators, is county cricket for (if you ignore for a moment the small matter of providing a breeding ground for the Test team)? b) A place or institution seen as creating&#8230; …

    Wiktionary

  • 69breeding establishment — naminių paukščių veisimo ūkis statusas Aprobuotas sritis gyvūnų gerovė apibrėžtis Paukštininkystės ūkis, kuriame laikomi naminiai paukščiai maistinių naminių paukščių perinių kiaušinių gavybai. atitikmenys: angl. breeding establishment vok.&#8230; …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • 70breeding institution — ūkinių gyvūnų veislininkystės institucija statusas Aprobuotas sritis veislininkystė apibrėžtis Lietuvos Respublikoje, kitoje Europos Sąjungos valstybėje narėje ar kitoje Europos ekonominės erdvės valstybėje įsteigtas juridinis asmuo, kita&#8230; …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)