Bred and Grown

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Grown and bred are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Grown" instead an adjective "Bred".

Grown adjective - Covered with a thick healthy natural growth.

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Bred and grown are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bred" instead an adjective "Grown".

Nearby Words: grow, growth, growing

Discworld: In Equal Rites, Granny Weatherwax becomes worried she may have to have The Talk with Esk, as the young girl has grown up around livestock and knows how they are bred, yet appears to remain unaware that this could have anything to do with human behavior.

Source: Miss Conception
Zim himself is a borderline example, as while technically he has no parents (Irkens are grown, not bred), his entire motivation is pleasing the parental figures of the entire species, the Tallest, who hate him and exile him to the far end of the known universe.

Source: Parental Abandonment / Western Animation

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