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Breede

Brede \Brede\, or Breede \Breede\, n. Breadth. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

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breede

n. (archaic spelling of breed English) vb. (archaic spelling of breed English)

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Breede

Breede may refer to:

  • Breede, Netherland, a town in the Eemsmond municipality
  • Breede Water Management Area in South Africa
  • Breede River in South Africa

Usage examples of "breede".

DNA coding of the male Breed ruled out breeding with either Breed, or non-Breed females.

You treat it as though it were a place deserving of your loyalty, when in fact the hatred breeding there could eventually be the downfall of the Wolf Breeds.

They must be trying to lull us by suggesting that they find us attractive for breeding purposes.

They were now confirming for the two emulations that they were indeed associating with each other, for this was better than being subject to the breeding program of this realm.

We may eat, sleep, or do anything we choose, but we may not leave this dais until the breeding occurs, and it is witnessed.

With my species, breeding is too important to be left to individual whim.

There they had wanted new breeding stock too, though it had been Colene they had proposed to take it from.

Her objection to required breeding was more substantial than that of the males.

The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons, that is, not breeding or willingly perching on trees.

Some of these facts do not show actual selection, but they show that the breeding of domestic animals was carefully attended to in ancient times, and is now attended to by the lowest savages.

It would, indeed, have been a strange fact, had attention not been paid to breeding, for the inheritance of good and bad qualities is so obvious.

I can bring a considerable catalogue of facts, showing that within the same area, varieties of the same animal can long remain distinct, from haunting different stations, from breeding at slightly different seasons, or from varieties of the same kind preferring to pair together.

It should, however, be borne in mind that, owing to few animals breeding freely under confinement, few experiments have been fairly tried: for instance, the canary-bird has been crossed with nine other finches, but as not one of these nine species breeds freely in confinement, we have no right to expect that the first crosses between them and the canary, or that their hybrids, should be perfectly fertile.

Whether such variability be taken advantage of by natural selection, and whether the variations be accumulated to a greater or lesser amount, thus causing a greater or lesser amount of modification in the varying species, depends on many complex contingencies,--on the variability being of a beneficial nature, on the power of intercrossing, on the rate of breeding, on the slowly changing physical conditions of the country, and more especially on the nature of the other inhabitants with which the varying species comes into competition.

Fanciers select their horses, dogs, and pigeons, for breeding, when they are nearly grown up: they are indifferent whether the desired qualities and structures have been acquired earlier or later in life, if the full-grown animal possesses them.