breed | (noun) a special type | - |
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(noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: stock, strain |
creed | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: credo |
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(noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, gospel, religious doctrine |
crossbreed | (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, hybrid |
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greed | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, rapacity |
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(noun) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves | - |
reed | (noun) a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed | Synonyms: beating-reed instrument, reed instrument |
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(noun) a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it | Synonyms: vibrating reed |
(noun) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites | - |
screed | (noun) an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete | - |
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(noun) a long piece of writing | - |
(noun) a long monotonous harangue | - |