engendrar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- beget verb To father a child, or more broadly, to be the cause or origin of something.
- breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
- engender verb To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
- father noun A male parent.
- spawn verb Of fish, frogs, or other aquatic creatures, to lay eggs in water.
Senses
engendrar is used for these senses in English:
- beget To cause; to produce; to bring forth.
- breed To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- breed (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated or to grow, like young before birth.
- father To be a father to; to sire.
- father To act as a father; to support and nurture.
- give rise to To be the origin of; to produce; to result in.
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.