stockbreeding
[ stok-bree-ding ]
noun
the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
Origin of stockbreeding
1Other words from stockbreeding
- stockbreeder, noun
Words Nearby stockbreeding
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How to use stockbreeding in a sentence
Perhaps the clasped hands and the ecstatic look were hardly necessary, for even so interesting a subject as stockbreeding.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsHe settled down to the congenial occupation of stockbreeding, on what was then considered to be a large scale.
The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work | Ernest FavencThe preference of the earlier Spanish settlers for stockbreeding also limited the agricultural area.
The History of Cuba, vol. 2 | Willis Fletcher Johnsonstockbreeding was very much easier and according to their ideas required no particular exertion on their part.
The History of Cuba, vol. 2 | Willis Fletcher Johnson
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