breeder

breeder
a) A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.

The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders.

b) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
See Also: breed, breeder reactor, brood, brooding

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