Breeding and Line

Breeding

Breeding noun - The line of ancestors from whom a person is descended.

Usage example: a family of good breeding that is well respected in the community

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Line and breeding are semantically related In some cases you can use "Line" instead a noun "Breeding".

Nearby Words: breed, breeder

Line noun - The line of ancestors from whom a person is descended.

Usage example: he comes from a noble line that goes back several centuries

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Breeding and line are semantically related in stock topic. Sometimes you can use "Breeding" instead a noun "Line".

Nearby Words: lined, linear, lineup, lineage, lineal

old	old breeding	old line
good	good breeding	good line
female	female breeding	female line
specific	specific breeding	specific line
Other adjectives: current, actual, bad, main, white, royal.

They've created at least one intelligent bandoll to act as breeding stock for a cheaply-produced line of dolls, and are quite content to butcher and dispose of any "unit" that doesn't meet their exacting standards, all for the bottom line.

Source: Light Novel / Unbreakable Machine Doll
A line of sidequests has the player uncovering a conspiracy involving inhumane breeding experiments at the hands of the leadership of the largest city on the continent.

Source: Government Conspiracy
This is helped by the millennia of genetic modification to the royal line, breeding out such negative qualities as greed and ruthlessness.

Source: Literature / Captain French, or the Quest for Paradise

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