breeder
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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.
Balto had a body built for strength and not speed, disappointing the breeder, who had the dog neutered.
From Reuters
She was trained as a landscape designer before becoming an agent for plant breeders and understands why gardeners are gravitating away from plants shaped like “meatballs.”
From Washington Post
The reactor, known as a fast breeder, excels at making plutonium, a top fuel of atom bombs.
From New York Times
When relatives surfaced a third time, in Korean breeder ducks the next year, a new clade was christened: 2.3.4.4b.
From Science Magazine
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
