breeding

Adjective

• producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring
  • the breeding population
    
  • retained a few bulls for breeding purposes
    

Noun

• the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

• the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
  • they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
    

• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
  • a woman of breeding and refinement
    

• elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  reproduction , procreation , facts of life , bringing up , fostering , fosterage , nurture , raising , rearing , upbringing , education , training , genteelness , gentility