Word Meanings - STIRPICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The breeding of special stocks or races.
Related words: (words related to STIRPICULTURE)
- SPECIALLY
1. In a special manner; partcularly; especially. Chaucer. 2. For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned. - SPECIALISM
Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism. - SPECIALIZATION
The setting spart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function. Darwin. (more info) 1. The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized. - SPECIALIZE
To supply with an organ or organs having a special function or functions. (more info) 1. To mention specialy; to particularize. 2. To apply to some specialty or limited object; to assign to a specific use; as, specialized knowledge. - BREEDING
1. The act or process of generating or bearing. 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. - BREEDER
1. One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham. 2. A cause. "The breeder of my sorrow." Shak. - SPECIALIST
One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. - SPECIALITY
See SPECIES (more info) 1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. Sir M. Hale. - BREEDBATE
One who breeds or originates quarrels. "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak. - SPECIALTY
A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified. Chitty. Bouvier. Wharton . Let specialties be therefore drawn between us. Shak. 4. That for which a person - BREED
brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. brĂ¼ten. See 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead - SPECIAL
1. Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort. A special is called by the schools a "species". I. Watts. 2. Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon. Our Savior is represented everywhere in Scripture - LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair. - UNSPECIALIZED
Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks. - ESPECIALNESS
The state of being especial. - INTERBREED
To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants. - CROSSBREED
1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. - OVERBREED
To breed to excess. - UPBREED
To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed. - HALF-BREED
Half-blooded. - ESPECIALLY
In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree. - IMBREED
To generate within; to inbreed. Hakewill. - BREDE; BREEDE
Breadth. Chaucer.