breeding

  • 91breeding — bree·ding s.m.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} 1. TS agr., zoot. allevamento selettivo di animali o piante per migliorarne le specie Sinonimi: selettocoltura. 2. TS nucl. nei reattori nucleari, produzione di nuclei fissili superiore al consumo… …

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  • 92breeding — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. background; culture, gentility, lineage. See courtesy, ancestry, fashion. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. cultivation, training, upbringing, development, schooling, rearing, conditioning, manners,… …

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  • 93breeding — breed·ing || briːdɪŋ adj. rearing; producing offspring n. courtesy; education; upbringing, rearing, cultivation briːd n. kind, sort, species, race, stock, pedigree v. reproduce; raise animals; guide, nurture; cause …

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  • 94breeding — noun good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity …

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  • 95breeding — n. 1. Procreation, having or begetting offspring, bearing, bringing forth. 2. Nurture, education, discipline, instruction, training, schooling, rearing, upbringing. 3. Deportment, manners …

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  • 96breeding — n 1. procreation, engenderment, begetting, fathering, bearing, hatching, spawning; reproduction, propagation, pullulation, multiplication; mating, copulation, coupling, impregnation, fertilization. 2. development, cultivation, improvement;… …

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  • 97breeding — noun Syn: (good) manners, gentility, refinement, cultivation, polish, urbanity; informal class …

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  • 98breeding — [ˈbriːdɪŋ] noun [U] 1) the process of MATING and producing young animals 2) the activity of keeping animals or plants in order to produce new animals or plants 3) old fashioned polite behaviour that is thought to be connected with the type of… …

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  • 99breeding — breed•ing [[t]ˈbri dɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) ahb. the producing of offspring 2) ahb. the improvement of breeds of livestock, as by selective mating and hybridization 3) bot the production of new forms of plants by selection, crossing, and hybridizing 4)… …

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  • 100breeding — The process of sexual reproduction and production of offspring …

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