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breed

verb
  1. To produce sexually or asexually others of one's kind: increase, multiply, procreate, proliferate, propagate, reproduce, spawn. See reproduction
  2. To be the biological father of: beget, father, get, procreate, sire. See kin
  3. To cause to come into existence: beget, create, engender, father, hatch, make, originate, parent, procreate, produce, sire, spawn. Idiom: give birth (or rise) to. See make
  4. To bring into existence and foster the development of: cultivate, grow, propagate, raise. See care for, reproduction
noun
A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members: cast, description, feather, ilk, kind 2, lot, manner, mold, nature, order, sort, species, stamp, stripe, type, variety. Informal: persuasion. See group

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