broodstock
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
broodstock (countable and uncountable, plural broodstocks)
- (aquaculture) A group of sexually mature individuals of a cultured species that is kept separate for breeding purposes.
- 2007 September 18, Henry Fountain, “A New Hope for Endangered Fish: Surrogate Breeding”, in New York Times[1]:
- So the spermatogonia of an endangered species could be kept preserved and used to produce male and female broodstock to help rebuild populations.
Translations[edit]
group of mature fish kept for breeding
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