dog breeding
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- noun
- /dɔg ˈbridɪŋ/
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cría de perros
- The practice of dog breeding aims to enhance certain desirable traits in puppies.
Examples
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Every month, Main Line Animal Rescue will spotlight a different commercial dog breeding kennel in Pennsylvania.
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So that leaves meth, backyard dog breeding, and black market odd job work.
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The same in dog breeding.
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He's been trying to reach that guy in Japan about that stupid dog breeding thing.
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And as with purebred dog breeding, we are neither shying away from controversy nor wading only into problems that offer an easy or quick fix.
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I'm that jerk at the party who knows everything about Byzantium, the chemistry of phosphorus, dog breeding, homosexual presidents, and the fate of the universe.
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Barbara Dennihy of the Companion Animal Protection Society, a national animal rights organization based in Massachusetts, said her group has been protesting in front of Puppy Experience from 1 to 4 p.m. every weekend for the past few months because it believes the pet store sells puppies obtained from substandard dog-breeding facilities known as "puppy mills."
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Many people are passionate about dog breeding to produce specific breeds for companionship.
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Understanding the genetics involved is crucial for successful dog breeding.
How Intensive
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'breeding' (intentional production of offspring) applied to 'dog' yields the practice of mating dogs to produce offspring with desired traits. This is a straightforward noun+noun combination following common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Dog breeding comes from the simple idea of making chosen dogs mate. The word breeding means helping animals have young. People choose parent dogs to get puppies with certain 'traits' like size, color or health, so dog breeding means selecting dogs to mate to get those puppies.