breed

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. create, multiply; generate, produce. —n. strain, race, stock.

See relation, class, reproduction.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. strain, variety, kind; see class 1 , race 1 .

v.

1. [To produce young]

Syn. reproduce, give birth, procreate, beget; see produce 1 , propagate 1 , reproduce 3 .

2. [To cause]

Syn. give rise to, engender, occasion, produce; see begin 1 , cause 2 , produce 1 .

3. [To cause animals or plants to reproduce]

Syn. raise, grow, cultivate, develop, propagate, rear, keep, hybridize, crossbreed, clone.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

strain, variety, type, class, genus, race, kind, line, species.

II

v.

1. reproduce procreate, propagate, bear young, beget, generate, hatch, produce, engender.

2. to cause bring about, lead to, produce, foster, create, effect, spawn.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To produce sexually or asexually others of one's kind: increase, multiply, procreate, proliferate, propagate, reproduce, spawn. See REPRODUCTION. 2. To be the biological father of: beget, father, get, procreate, sire. See KIN. 3. To cause to come into existence: beget, create, engender, father, hatch, make, originate, parent, procreate, produce, sire, spawn. Idiom: give birth (or rise) to. See MAKE. 4. To bring into existence and foster the development of: cultivate, grow, propagate, raise. See CARE FOR, REPRODUCTION. II noun A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members: cast, description, feather, ilk, kind2, lot, manner, mold, nature, order, sort, species, stamp, stripe, type, variety. Informal: persuasion. See GROUP.