Breeding

n.
  1. The act or process of generating or bearing.
  2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
  3. Nurture; education; formation of manners.
  4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
  5. Descent; pedigree; extraction.
    6. Close breeding, In and in breeding ,
    breeding from a male and female from the same parentage.
    Cross breeding ,
    breeding from a male and female of different lineage.
    Good breeding ,
    politeness; genteel deportment.