breeder /ˈbɹiːdɚ/ noun6 •A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).Breeders have figured out that if they can take one haploid set of chromosomes from a cross and copy it (or double it creating a double haploid), they will have a pure line almost instantly. — 2016 •(slang, offensive) A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focused on the rearing of their own children. •(offensive, humorous) A heterosexual person; one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding; straggot.Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock. •Ellipsis of breeder reactor, a type of nuclear reactor that creates more fissile material than it consumes, often used for the production of atomic weapons. •A 40-gallon fish tank, sometimes used to breed fish that is low in height and wide in length, typically measuring 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 16 inches high, making it and shallower than a typical 40-gallon aquarium. •A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.A glider-emitting breeder pattern can probably also be constructed in this rule, which would out-radiate any chaotic pattern by a considerable margin. — 2008 formsbreeders
