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  • adjective Able to breed or be bred.

Etymologies

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breed +‎ -able

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Examples

  • "I got into the breedable bunnies first," says Ms. Bach.

    You Can Lead a Virtual Horse to Water, But You Might Get Sued Along the Way Justin Scheck 2011

  • Required intact licenses for breedable dogs cost $60 per year; altered ones cost $20.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

  • Required intact licenses for breedable dogs cost $60 per year; altered ones cost $20.

    Anti- Dog Dog Laws 2006

  • You will go, as all unwed females of breedable years do, to the marriage auction block.

    Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down Sherrilyn Kenyon 2005

  • If beauty were a simple thing, it would be possible to arrange human beings in a simple scale, according to whether they had more or less of this simple quality -- just as one can do in the case of what are perhaps really simple and breedable qualities -- height or weight.

    Mankind in the Making 1906

  • If beauty were a simple thing, it would be possible to arrange human beings in a simple scale, according to whether they had more or less of this simple quality — just as one can do in the case of what are perhaps really simple and breedable qualities — height or weight.

    Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

  • Nothing, at any rate, seems more certain than that one result of this most disastrous struggle will be an urgent demand by all the States engaged in it for at least as many male children as the mothers of each country can supply, without special regard to their other characters, breedable or not breedable.

    Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893

  • It's either that or future wars to decide who has rights to breedable wives.

    unknown title 2011

  • It's either that or future wars to decide who has rights to breedable wives.

    unknown title 2011

  • It's either that or future wars to decide who has rights to breedable wives.

    unknown title 2011

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