breed
Because it is a word with a single syllable, breed is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofbreed
- All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
Example: "a breed of animal"
- A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
- A group of people with shared characteristics.
Example: "People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed."
- To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- To give birth to; to be the native place of.
Example: "a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men"
- Of animals, to mate.
- To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
- To arrange the mating of specific animals.
Example: "She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull."
- To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
Example: "He tries to breed blue roses."
- To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
- To yield or result in.
Example: "disaster breeds famine; familiarity breeds contempt"
- To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
- (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
- To ejaculate inside someone's ass
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