rearing

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
7

Definition of rearing

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of rear
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verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of rear

noun

  1. Act of raising young.
    “We studied blowfly rearings in various environmental conditions.”
    “In queening his apiary, he aims to keep about half of the queens of the current season's rearing, and the other of the summer preceding.”

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Etymology

From Middle English rerynge (“raising”).

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