breedyadj.
/ˈbriːdi/ Breeding readily; prolific.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective]
bearingOE
genderinga1398
multiplyinga1400
fecundc1420
broodya1522
fruitful1526
breeding1552
procreant1588
procreative1598
increasing1600
broodious1602
prolifical1608
conceptiousa1616
plenteousa1616
conceptive1630
feracious1637
propagatory1647
prolific1650
proliferous1654
propagative1654
progenial1664
teemful1755
progenitive1769
breedy1824
proligerous1836
progenital1837
philoprogenitive1857
eugenesic1864
1824 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 12 55 Blockheads..are breedy, and double themselves every ten years.
1865 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 53 The life and habits of the ‘breedy creature’ [the oyster].
1883 St. James's Gaz. 14 Apr. 6 Hares are not such breedy creatures as rabbits.
Derivatives
ˈbreediness n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > quality or capacity of
feracityc1420
fecundity1447
fertility1490
virility1598
fruitfulness1624
Priapus1637
procreativeness1655
breedingness1674
prolificness1678
prolificalness1699
polytoky1702
breediness1753
prolificacy1756
philoprogenitiveness1842
propagability1853
teemfulness1855
teeming1856
progenitiveness1868
fecundability1926
1753 Dialogue Swift & Prior St. Patrick's Church, Dublin 24 Our early Marriages, the Breedyness of our People.
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