breeding

4 definitions • 3 examples

the keeping of animals or plants in order to breed from them:

The family's business was horse-breeding.

We used to keep pigs for breeding purposes.

the process in which animals have sex and produce young animals:

The penguins' breeding season has begun.

polite and socially correct behaviour that someone has because they were taught it as a child

A person who has good breeding has been trained in childhood to be polite and behave correctly.