horse breeding
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2.8
- noun
- /hɔrs ˈbridɪŋ/
:
cría de caballos
- MERO had thrashed all that ancient night, dreamed of horse breeding or hoarse breathing, whether the act of sex or bloody, cutthroat gasps he didn't know.
- horse breeding farm
- horse breeding business
Examples
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As the proper horse breeding techniques, armor, crafting skills, and new technology came into play, they would only become more deadly.
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To run a horse breeding operation, you need a certain touch.
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Among the exceptions to this rule is horse breeding.
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Some of their fish culture interests and practices derive from their horse-breeding activities, developed in the preceding three hundred years.
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He grew up Amish on his family's horse breeding farm in northern Minnesota.
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Harsell succeeded Busbey as editor of the magazine, which was founded by Busbey and is most famous for its reporting on harness racing and horse breeding.
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The horse breeding farm produces champion racehorses with excellent lineage.
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She dedicated her life to horse breeding, focusing on creating strong and healthy foals.
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At the festival, they showcased the best practices in horse breeding to improve equine genetics.
Synonyms
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3.1
The process of producing new animals or plants by choosing which ones mate
How Intensive
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2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'horse' (the animal) + 'breeding' (the intentional production of offspring), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the practice of mating horses. This is a common, cross-linguistic compound pattern (noun + gerund/noun) and therefore immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Horse breeding comes from the simple image of choosing which horse will mate with which so their baby horses have the qualities people want. So, horse breeding means the practice of mating horses 'to produce desired qualities' in the offspring.