breeder

Example Sentences

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The malleability of the dog genome allows for enormous physical variety, she explained, meaning that breeders can push features to extremes—squashing snouts, piling on wrinkles.

From The Wall Street Journal

Plant breeders often “stack” resistance genes into plant varieties to add protection against several diseases at once.

From Science Magazine

Prior to human hunting and trapping of the gray wolf population in the northern Rocky Mountains, perhaps 10 to 15 percent of wolf packs in the population had multiple breeders.

From Scientific American

Powers told his wife, Dorrey, they were going pumpkin picking and surprised her instead with a trip to the breeder’s farm.

From Seattle Times

District Judge Jonathan Straw accepted evidence Emerson was "a broken man", suffering from ill health and whose reputation as a respected breeder was now "in tatters".

From BBC