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breed

 
 
/briːd/ noun [C]

Translation

ANIMAL a type of dog, sheep, pig, etc
köpek, koyun, domuz vb. ırk, cins, soy
a rare breed of cattle60
PERSON/THING a type of person or thing
insan soyu, eşya cinsi, türü
a new breed of bank1747
(Definition of breed noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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