Usually means: Group with similar genetic characteristics.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. breed: Merriam-Webster
  2. breed, breed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Breed, breed: Wordnik
  7. breed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Breed, breed: Wiktionary
  9. breed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. breed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. breed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. breed: Dictionary.com
  13. breed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. breed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Breed (Lauren Christy album), Breed (Lauren Christy song), Breed (TV pilot), Breed (comics), Breed (song), Breed (surname), Breed (video game), Breed, The Breed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Breed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. breed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. breed: Rhymezone
  19. breed, breed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. breed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. breed: FreeDictionary.org
  22. breed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. breed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. breed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. breed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. breed: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breed: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. breed, breed: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bree'd, breed: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)
  3. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See bred as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
verb:  (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
verb:  (of animals) To mate.
verb:  (transitive) To keep (animals) and have (them) reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.
verb:  (transitive, often with to or with) To arrange the mating of (specific animals).
verb:  To propagate or grow (plants) in an effort to give (them) certain qualities.
verb:  To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
verb:  To yield or result in.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated or to grow, like young before birth.
verb:  (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up.
verb:  To produce or obtain by any natural process.
verb:  (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed, or multiplied.
verb:  (transitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside (a person or a bodily orifice of same); to creampie.
noun:  All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
noun:  A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
noun:  (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A town and unincorporated community therein, in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States, named after postmaster George M. Breed.
noun:  (derogatory) Ellipsis of half-breed. [(dated, derogatory, offensive) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).]

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