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unbreeding

unbreeding adjective: not reproducing. Also the present participle and gerund of unbreed.

Adjective

unbreeding (not comparable)

  1. Not reproducing.
    • I lurched to my feet and lunged for the only door — my small cottage no larger than proscribed by Moccusian tenets for single, unbreeding women […]2010, Camille Alexa, “For They Are As Beasts”, in Gill Ainsworth, editor, The Blackness Within: Stories of the Pagan God Moccus, Apex Publications, →ISBN, page 158

Also used as

unbreeding is also the present participle and gerund of unbreed.

Origin of unbreeding

From un- + breeding.

Questions about unbreeding

What does unbreeding mean?
Unbreeding means not reproducing.
What part of speech is unbreeding?
Unbreeding is an adjective.

Words near unbreeding in the dictionary

  1. unbreeched
  2. unbreeches
  3. unbreeching
  4. unbreed
  5. unbreedable
  6. unbreeding
  7. unbreeds
  8. unbreezy
  9. unbrent
  10. unbreveted
  11. unbrevetted

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