lisääntyä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
- increase verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
- multiply verb To perform the mathematical operation that combines a number with itself a given number of times.
- people noun Human beings in general, or the men, women and children of a particular group, place or nation.
- propagate verb To spread or pass something on, such as information, a belief, or a disease.
- reproduce verb To make a copy of something, such as an image, document, or sound.
- spawn verb Of fish, frogs, or other aquatic creatures, to lay eggs in water.
Senses
lisääntyä is used for these senses in English:
- breed To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- increase (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- multiply (intransitive) To grow in number.
- people (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
- people (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
- propagate (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
- reproduce (transitive) To bring something to mind; to recall.
- spawn (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
breed — full definition
- verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
- verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
- verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
- noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.
increase — full definition
- verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
- verb To make something larger in amount, number, or degree.
- noun The amount by which something grows, or the act of growing larger.