breed

Noun

• a special type
  • Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs
    

• a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
  • he experimented on a particular breed of white rats
    
  • he created a new strain of sheep
    

Verb

• have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
  • pandas rarely breed in captivity
    
  • These bacteria reproduce
    

• cause to procreate (animals)
  • She breeds dogs
    

• copulate with a female, used especially of horses
  • The horse covers the mare
    

• call forth

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  strain , stock , multiply , cover , engender , spawn