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• (of animals) mate and then produce offspring.

• "toads are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed"

Similar: reproduce, produce offspring, procreate, bear young, multiply, propagate, mate, beget offspring,

• a stock of animals or plants within a species having a distinctive appearance and typically having been developed by deliberate selection.

• "the big continental breeds are eagerly being imported by British farmers"

Similar: variety, stock, strain, line, family, type, kind, sort, class,

Origin: Old English brēdan ‘produce (offspring), bear (a child)’, of Germanic origin; related to German brüten, also to brood.

• a kind of person that is very different from the norm.
"health-service staff are a breed apart with their dedication to duty"

• a kind of person that is slowly disappearing.
"the country's dying breed of elder statesmen"