Breed and Like

Breed

Breed noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

Usage example: some people say that honest politicians are a rare breed

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Like and breed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Like" instead a noun "Breed".

Nearby Words: breeding, breeder

Like noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

Usage example: you can never trust his like, because they'll always let you down

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Breed and like are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breed" instead a noun "Like".

Nearby Words: likely, likeness, liking, liked, likeable

old	old breed	old like
good	good breed	good like
rare	rare breed	rare like
special	special breed	special like
Other adjectives: normal, certain, alien, entire, real, large, big, official, smaller, different, modern, super.

people	breed people	like people
kind	breed kind	like kind
children	breed children	like children
way	breed way	like way
Other words: food, eggs, humans, animals, cats, girls.

Many vampire hunter series with a half-breed protagonist, like Vampire Hunter D, have a similar theme.

Source: One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce
There's almost no animals from Asian countries (like Tanukis), albeit in some fanart the author has included some Asian breeds like the Japanese Shiba Inu breed.

Source: Creator Provincialism
Most of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters just barely resemble ponies, instead looking more like mutated toy-breed dogs with cat ears.

Source: Informed Species / Western Animation

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