порода — meaning in English

English meaning

• breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
• race noun A contest to see who is fastest at reaching a goal.
• rock noun A hard natural mineral material, or a piece of it such as a stone or boulder.
• strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.

Senses

порода is used for these senses in English:

• breed All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
• breed (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
• rock (geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
• 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.

race — full definition

1. noun A contest to see who is fastest at reaching a goal.
2. noun A group of people classed together based on shared ancestry or physical characteristics.
3. verb To compete to see who can get somewhere or finish something first.

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