Usually means: Selective breeding for desired traits.
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  1. eugenics: Merriam-Webster
  2. eugenics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eugenics: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eugenics: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Eugenics, eugenics: Wordnik
  7. eugenics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eugenics: Wiktionary
  9. eugenics: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eugenics: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eugenics: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. eugenics: Dictionary.com
  13. eugenics: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Eugenics (album), Eugenics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Eugenics: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. eugenics: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. eugenics: Rhymezone
  18. Eugenics: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. eugenics: FreeDictionary.org
  20. eugenics: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  22. eugenics: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Eugenics: The Difference
  2. eugenics: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. eugenics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Eugenics: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. eugenics: Medical dictionary
  7. Eugenics: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
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Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Eugenics: Catholic Encyclopedia
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  1. eugenics: Urban Dictionary

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  1. eugenics: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL

(Note: See eugenic as well.)

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noun:  (sociology, biology) A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

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