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simple past tense and past participle of breed.

Can be confused: bread, bred.

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Humans have bred dogs to produce tremendous variety.

Only a handful of wild animal species have been successfully bred to get along with humans.

Through genetic engineering, scientists have bred a mouse capable of running twice as far as other mice before exhaustion.

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Humans have bred dogs to produce tremendous variety.

Only a handful of wild animal species have been successfully bred to get along with humans.

Through genetic engineering, scientists have bred a mouse capable of running twice as far as other mice before exhaustion.

House cats bred to resemble toy tigers are the latest feline fancy.

Only a handful of animal species have been successfully bred to get along with humans-but that hasn't kept us from trying.

Mink for dissection are purpose bred and were not collected from wild populations.

Some, such as herding sheepdogs, have been bred for tasks that seem to involve a lot of intelligence.

Newly bred transparent frogs don't need to be dissected to see their internal organs and blood vessels.

The neurobiologists bred normal female mice with males genetically modified to uniformly express a green fluorescent protein.

The scientists confirmed that the mouse could sing and then bred it with laboratory house mice.

Bred to be harvested young, their flat pods are perfect for stir-fries.

My dogs are specially bred for incontinence, copious shedding, and body odor.

But zoos today are, more often than not, places where endangered species are bred in verdant and naturalistic.

But curiously, the rats in question had been bred in one particular room.

In time, the power of authors birthed the idea of authority and bred a culture of expertise.

They tend to be smaller than commercially bred turkeys, with more evenly distributed.

Little, a former college track star whose father had bred dogs, mated generation after generation of mouse siblings.

In fact, its thesis was that the discrediting of old ideologies had bred a hunger for new ones.

Rabinovitch reproduced the result by administering the factors to a strain of mice bred to model autoimmune diabetes.

Hybrids have been bred for early ripening, high yield, and/or disease resistance.

They say that cloned meat is scientifically identical to meat from traditionally bred animals.

It is not the first time that an ancient temple has bred violence.

Each generation has been selectively bred for tameness-fearlessness and nonaggression toward humans.

Genetic variants that should have been bred out could sometimes exert their empurpling effect in subsequent generations.

The latter kinds are bred to produce more and larger spears because they don't have to put energy into seed production.

Tasmanian poppies were bred for medicinal rather than recreational use.

Some were bred in highly controlled research environments.

It was only the second time the duck-billed, web-foot mammal had been successfully bred in captivity.

After they were bred with normal mice, the male offspring.

It takes several years of cultivation until that new variety is bred thoroughly and can be grown predictably from tuber.

Beyond knowing what places need protection, conservationists now know where turtles bred in captivity can be released.

However, no one has yet tried to replace these with products from animals bred in captivity.

These horses were originally bred small so that they could work in coal mines.

The mature transgenic animals were bred usually with nontransgenic goats as a first step toward producing a herd.

Each odor sample will be wafted toward a cloud of specially bred midges kept at the end of a wind tunnel.

To do so, they used some mice that had been bred to lack the gene that instructs the body to make osteocalcin.

Cultivars, or varieties bred from the vine, account for nearly all of the wine produced today.

Wendy- you ask if there is anyway elephants can be bred to be tuskless.

When the scientists bred mice to have the same mutation, the mice slept less and were more active than their regular rodent peers.

But the breakdown of the old categories has bred confusion.

That's what they are bred for, so hopefully the right traits are in there genetically," he said.

One cat has been bred that's considered hypoallergenic:.

Those that tried to feed were removed and bred separately.

Over time, systematic corruption and mismanagement have bred bad data, false information and outright fraud.

The scientists next transplanted these structures into special laboratory mice bred to avoid rejection.

If some cultures find genetic engineering to be unpalatable, other plants could be selectively bred to over-express the genes.

Such differences will grow as strains are bred in captivity.

Millions of birds are bred especially for the holiday.

Researchers gave low doses of a human drug to mice bred to mimic the learning and memory problems in people with.

The researchers then bred those caterpillars to raise a stable colony of spider-silk-spinning silkworms.

Heroic doctors and nurses labored day and night while piles of amputated limbs bred maggots in the sun.

Keeler discovered two surprising facts about mice he had bred in his rented attic room.

Not only that, but you can herd ducks specifically bred to resemble apprehensive bowling pins.

They were bred to attack bull's because it was thought that when they attacked the bulls, they tenderized the meat.

The way the chimps were bred could also be a factor in their health.

Its flashy occupants, all bred in captivity, seem content.

They grow low, store plentiful water in their leaves, and are bred to withstand temperature and moisture extremes.

If more resistance can be bred into heirlooms that would be great.

Arthur says, when rich owners bred and raced their own contenders.

The offense in the writing is bred from social discomfort with the subject.

It is certainly conceivable that the remains were of homo erectus people that intentionally bred themselves smaller.

To find this link, researchers compared normal lab mice to those bred to have dysfunctional sleep-wake cycles.

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verb (used with object)

to produce (offspring); procreate; engender.

to produce by mating; propagate sexually; reproduce: Ten mice were bred in the laboratory.

Horticulture.

to cause to reproduce by controlled pollination.

to improve by controlled pollination and selection.

to raise (cattle, sheep, etc.): He breeds longhorns on the ranch.

to cause or be the source of; engender; give rise to: Dirt breeds disease. Stagnant water breeds mosquitoes.

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to develop by training or education; bring up; rear: He was born and bred a gentleman.

Energy. to produce more fissile nuclear fuel than is consumed in a reactor.

to impregnate; mate: Breed a strong mare with a fast stallion and hope for a Derby winner.

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verb (used without object)

to produce offspring: Many animals breed in the spring.

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to be engendered or produced; grow; develop: Bacteria will not breed in alcohol.

11.

to cause the birth of young, as in raising stock.

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to be pregnant.

noun

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Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.

14.

lineage; stock; strain: She comes from a fine breed of people.

15.

sort; kind; group: Scholars are a quiet breed.

16.

Offensive. half-breed (def. 2).

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English breden, Old English brēdan to nourish (cognate with Old High German bruotan, German brüten); noun use from 16th century

Related forms

breed·a·ble, adjective

o·ver·breed, verb (used with object), -bred, -breed·ing.

re·breed, verb, -bred, -breed·ing.

sub·breed, noun

Synonyms
1, 2. beget, bear, generate. 5. promote, occasion, foster, produce, induce, develop. 14. family, pedigree, line.

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World English Dictionary

bred (brɛd)

—vb
1.	the past tense and past participle of breed

—n
2.	derogatory, slang (Austral) a person who lives in a small remote place

[sense 2: diminutive form of inbred]

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Word Origin & History

breed

O.E. bredan "bring young to birth, carry," also "cherish, keep warm," from W.Gmc. *brodjan (cf. O.H.G. bruoten, Ger. brüten "to brood, hatch"), from *brod- "fetus, hatchling," from PIE *bhreue- "burn, heat" (see brood). Original notion of the word was incubation, warming

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to hatch. Breeding "good manners" is from 1590s.

bred

p.t., pp. of breed.

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Science Dictionary

breed (brēd) Pronunciation Key
Verb

To produce or reproduce by giving birth or hatching.
To raise animals or plants, often to produce new or improved types.

Noun A group of organisms having common ancestors and sharing certain traits that are not shared with other members of the same species. Breeds are usually produced by mating selected parents.

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Idioms & Phrases

bred

see born and bred. Also see under breed.

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