lajike — meaning in English

English meaning

• breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
• strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.

Senses

lajike is used for these senses in English:

• breed All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
• cultivar A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species. [from 1923]
• strain (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• strain (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.

breed — full definition

1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

strain — full definition

1. verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.
2. verb To make a great, often exhausting effort.
3. verb To pass a liquid through a sieve or strainer to remove solids.
4. noun Physical or mental pressure, tension, or exhaustion.
5. noun A particular variety of a virus, bacterium, or other organism.

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