breeding

(s) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring
- the breeding population
- retained a few bulls for breeding purposes

(n) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression genteelness, gentility,
(n) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- a woman of breeding and refinement
training, education,
(n) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing, raising,
(n) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
(n) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring facts of life, procreation, reproduction,

genteelness gentility training education bringing up fosterage fostering nurture rearing upbringing raising facts of life procreation reproduction

breeding ground