Breeding
Meanings and phrases
breeding
- producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring
breeding
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression; genteelness; gentility
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; bringing up; fostering; fosterage; nurture; raising; rearing; upbringing
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); education; training
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring; reproduction; procreation; facts of life
n.
- a place where animals breed
- The lake is an important breeding ground for terns.
- Diamond Island is also noted as a turtle breeding ground.
- It is the longest earth dam in Thailand and a large breeding ground.
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- breeding cattle
- The backbone of Cholistan economy is cattle breeding.
- Goat and cattle breeding are other activities.
- Main economic activity of the town is sheep and cattle breeding.
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- breeding horses
- Her husband, Gerard, took over the horse breeding of his father.
- He was also an expert on cattle, purebred dogs, horse breeding, fishing and hunting.
- Organized horse breeding in Holstein was first conducted in the monasteries of Uetersen.
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- In Alabama the breeding season begins in January.
- The breeding season lasts from winter to mid summer.
- Only a few survive until the second breeding season.
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- He made little impact as a breeding stallion.
- He had little success as a breeding stallion.
- He made no impact as a breeding stallion.
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- A breeding program was created that used embryo transfer techniques.
- CIMMYT operates a conventional breeding program to provide optimized strains.
- The main conservation project undertaken by Khama Rhino Sanctuary is the rhino breeding program.
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- They generally do not reach far into the seas near their breeding grounds.
- It is one of the few known breeding grounds in Ireland of the Eurasian wigeon.
- The Marbled Murrelet, in contrast tends to remain closer to its breeding grounds.
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- Except during the breeding season, this animal is solitary.
- They feed inshore during the breeding season in the midwater.
- Females have one litter of 6-7 young during the breeding season.
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- Several zoos have started captive breeding programs.
- The St. Louis Zoo, in St. Louis, Missouri, has one of the most successful captive breeding programs.
- In 1996, five adult racers were collected and sent to the Jersey Zoo for the first attempt at captive breeding.
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- This lower modern rate has been attributed to the selective breeding of bulls.
- However, some broad definitions of genetic engineering include selective breeding.
- It is the result of selective breeding of native Czech landrace goats crossed with Swiss Saanen goats.
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- The population was estimated at about 230 breeding pairs in 2002.
- Most other countries have at least four figures of breeding pairs.
- Occasionally, isolated breeding pairs are found in five neighbouring countries.
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- The breeding habitat is open woodland, cultivated areas and gardens.
- This area is a valuable feeding and breeding habitat for water birds.
- By pumping these areas dry in the spring and summer, the mosquito breeding habitat was eliminated.
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- They are also extending their breeding range possibly reducing/supplanting steppe buzzards.
- Plovers usually select a breeding range that they share with bison and black tailed prairie dogs.
- When the monarch's breeding range overlaps with the viceroy, the viceroy will adopt the lighter shades of orange.
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- Purdy is a cat enthusiast who owns mostly valuable breeding stock.
- Selection criteria for breeding stock focuses on their jumping abilities.
- Each November, the November Sale annually produces the highest average price of any breeding stock sale worldwide.
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- Flight patterns of "A. freeborni" remain in close proximity to breeding sites in the summertime.
- There has been massive habit destruction, especially of breeding sites, because of land development.
- Prehibernation flights, during which individuals disperse from breeding sites, take place in September.
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- Several zoos have started captive breeding programs.
- Several zoos operate silvery gibbon breeding programs.
- Some of Harlan's collected seeds came to be used successfully in official USDA breeding programs.
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- There is a breeding population of snowy plover.
- There is a small breeding population of 13 pairs of black-naped tern.
- Sightings are fairly common in Florida, although a breeding population has not yet been confirmed.
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- It is an important breeding site for seabirds.
- It is the only known Moroccan breeding site for the glossy ibis.
- The lagoon is reported as a breeding site for the little penguin.
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- Light Shift's sire, Kingmambo was a highly successful breeding stallion.
- Virginia Waters' sire, Kingmambo was a highly successful breeding stallion.
- After his retirement from racing he became a very successful breeding stallion in Japan.
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- The caves host an important breeding colony of the Canary big-eared bat.
- There is breeding colony of southern sea lions at the nearby Kelp Islands.
- Silver gulls breed on the islands, which also support a breeding colony of Australian sea lions.
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- New Guinea has 578 species of breeding birds, of which 324 species are endemic.
- The most common breeding birds are the willow warbler, common chaffinch, and redwing.
- His grandfather, Late Ramdas Rai, splurged the family inheritance, mainly on keeping & breeding birds.
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- Some of the species are scarce and breeding colonies in this area are important.
- There are also brown booby breeding colonies at East and West Fairfax and East Hoskyn Islands.
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- Significant advances in plant breeding ensued after the work of geneticist Gregor Mendel.
- He thus ensured that the PBI's pre-eminence in the application of science to plant breeding.
- Many of the sites where it has been found are next to plant breeding stations and botanical gardens.
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- Kennymore was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion.
- He failed to win again and was retired to become a breeding stallion in France.
- At the end of his racing career Louvois was retired to become a breeding stallion.
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- A male and female will form a breeding pair.
- A breeding pair of pygmy right whales were retained in a netted area.
- The breeding pair is usually monogamous, with pair bonds usually lasting several years.
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- Of South Georgia's 31 breeding species, 27 are found here.
- Currently, statistically robust trends are produced for 11 of the UK’s 17 breeding species.
- They mainly occur as breeding species, as the common name implies, in Europe, Asia and, to a lesser extent, Africa.
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- The lake is an important breeding ground for terns.
- It is an important breeding site for seabirds.
- The shores of the bay are an important breeding ground for harbor seals.
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- The herd exhibits much restlessness during breeding season.
- These pouches are particularly pronounced during breeding season.
- Males’ tails are much shorter and sometimes display a whitish sheen during breeding season.
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- Since 1980 all chicks have been ringed and breeding success estimated.
- Numerous factors may weigh into the breeding success of common buzzards.
- The monitoring data obtained suggest breeding success of the high Andean flamingos in Bolivia and Argentina in 2011–2012.
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- Many bird species have established breeding populations in areas to which they have been introduced by humans.
- The heaths have strong breeding populations of whinchat ("Saxicola rubetra") and stonechat ("Saxicola torquata").
- The islands have high natural values, notably breeding populations of seabirds, marine turtles and coral cay vegetation.
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- It is also a large fish breeding area of Suphanburi.
- Coastal mangroves provide a breeding area for dugong.
- Oldenburg is the largest studbook in terms of breeding area.
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- Light Shift's sire, Kingmambo was a highly successful breeding stallion.
- Virginia Waters' sire, Kingmambo was a highly successful breeding stallion.
- After his retirement from racing he became a very successful breeding stallion in Japan.