breeder
English
/ˈbɹiːdə(ɹ)/
noun
Definitions
- A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
- (slang) A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
- (gay slang) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
- a type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons.
- (cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
Etymology
Affix from English breed.
Origin
English
breed
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- breed English
- breedable English
- breedbate English
- breedermobile English
- breedership English
- breedest English
- breedeth English
- breeding English
- breedism English
- breedist English
- breedy English
- colorbreed English
- cross-breed English
- crossbreed English
- half-breed English
- horse English
- horsebreeder English
- inbreed English
- interbreed English
- intrabreed English
- misbreed English
- mouth English
- mouthbreeder English
- multibreed English
- nonbreeder English
- out English
- outbreed English
- outbreeder English
- overbreed English
- prebreeder English
- rebreed English
- stock English
- stockbreeder English
- subbreed English
- thoroughbreed English
- unbreed English
- underbreed English
- upbreed English
- breden Middle English
- bredi Esperanto
- out
- horse
- breed
- mouth
- stock
- breedy
- unbreed
- inbreed
- rebreed
- upbreed
- breedeth
- breeding
- misbreed
- breedest
- breedist
- breedism
- outbreed
- subbreed
- breedable
- overbreed
- breedbate
- underbreed
- nonbreeder
- interbreed
- intrabreed
- half-breed
- multibreed
- colorbreed
- prebreeder
- outbreeder
- crossbreed
- cross-breed
- breedership
- horsebreeder
- stockbreeder
- mouthbreeder
- thoroughbreed
- breedermobile