good breeding
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The population of New Zealand's kakapo, an endangered flightless parrot, has increased 25% in the last year to 252 birds following a good breeding season and success with artificial insemination, the conservation department said Tuesday.
From Reuters • Aug. 9, 2022
In part, that’s because Elizabeth Ann is likely to have just a few good breeding years, and annual litters average only three to five kits.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 13, 2022
Mr Sheppard said the new "family" would be a "really good breeding group" as they all come from different backgrounds.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2021
Distinctions of wealth and talent continued to exist in America, but republican leaders increasingly attributed their success to hard work and personal merit instead of birth and good breeding.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
He was so sure of his own good breeding, he could laugh affectionately at the rich-quick vulgarities of the uncle who had adopted him and from whom he had inherited his fortune.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
