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Dictionary: breed·er   (brē'dər) pronunciation
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  1. A person who breeds animals or plants.
  2. An animal kept to produce offspring.
  3. Offensive Slang. A heterosexual person.
  4. A source or cause: social injustice-a breeder of revolutions.
  5. A breeder reactor.

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1. a person with an animal enterprise involving the multiplication of the herd, flock or group.
2. a female animal used basically for the production of saleable young.

  • b. bull — a bull sold specifically as a sire with an implied guarantee of fertility. Such bulls are usually replaced free of charge with a comparable animal by the vendor if the bull is not a fertile calf getter.
  • b. flock — a flock of hens producing fertile eggs for hatching purposes.
  • seedstock b. — producer of breeding stock for purebred and commercial breeders.
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IN BRIEF: A person who mates animals or plants together, usually as a business.

pronunciation To ensure having good stock, we bought our gecko mating pairs from one of the most reputable breeders in the business.

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A breeder is a person who practices the vocation of mating carefully selected specimens of the same breed to reproduce specific, consistently replicable qualities and characteristics.

This might be as a farmer, agriculturalist, or hobbyist, and can be practiced on a large or small scale, for food, fun, or profit.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - opdrætter, avler

Nederlands (Dutch)
fokker, verwekker, teler, kweekreactor

Français (French)
n. - (Agric) éleveur, (Phys) sur(ré)générateur

Deutsch (German)
n. - Züchter, Brüter, Brutreaktor

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κτηνοτρόφος, εκτροφέας, (ανα)παραγωγός, (φυσ.) πυρηνικός αντιδραστήρας ταχέων ηλεκτρονίων

Italiano (Italian)
allevatore, reattore autofertilizzante

Português (Portuguese)
n. - criador (m) de plantas ou animais

Русский (Russian)
животновод, реактор-раз- множитель

Español (Spanish)
n. - criador, reproductor, generador, reactor reproductor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - djur (växt) som förökar sig, förädlare

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
饲养动物的人, 产仔的动物, 培育植物的人, 繁殖的植物

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 飼養動物的人, 產仔的動物, 培育植物的人, 繁殖的植物

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 번식하는 동물, 가축 사육자

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 家畜育種家, 栽培家, 種畜, 飼育者, 張本人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مربي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עוסק בגידול חיות, מגדל‬


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