A matsayin suna, “iri” na nufin rukunin dabbobi ko shuke-shuke da ke da alaƙa iri ɗaya kuma suna iya haifar da zuriya masu irin wannan halaye. Hakanan yana iya komawa ga wani nau'i ko nau'in dabba ko tsiro, kamar nau'in kare ko furen fure. Hakanan yana iya komawa ga tsarin kiwo ko shuka wani nau'in dabba ko shuka don wata manufa ta musamman, kamar kiwo don tsere ko kiwo amfanin gona don yawan amfanin ƙasa. Bugu da ƙari, yana iya nufin haifar da ko haifar da wani yanayi ko sakamako, kamar rashin jin daɗi na kiwo ko nasarar kiwo.
1. His customers always thought of him as half a man, so short and spare of frame he was almost a dwarf, and yet he lacked the ill-proportioned limbs of that breed.
2. He approved highly of the giant Morgante, because, although of the giant breed which is always arrogant and ill-conditioned, he alone was affable and well-bred.
3. I know of a lady who asked one of these figure schemers whether her little lap-dog would be in pup and would breed, and how many and of what colour the little pups would be.
4. The dragons were the only race bound by their own law to only breed with humans.
5. Belah was nearly bursting with it when the brothers rose again, their chins glistening with her essence and their fresh dragon marks glowing with their desire to breed with her.
6. If there were others of his breed in the city and he was leaving to gather them for a return visit, I suspected soon there would be a sizable brawl erupting.
7. I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country and propagate the breed and to feed them on board, I had a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn.
8. Since my last return I find the breed is considerably increased, especially the sheep which I hope will prove much to the advantage of the woolen manufacture, by the fineness of the fleeces.
9. He was strongly bent to get me a woman of my own size, by whom I might propagate the breed but I think I should rather have died than undergone the disgrace of leaving a posterity to be kept in cages like tame canary birds, and perhaps in time sold about the kingdom to persons of quality, for curiosities.
10. The other was, by a certain composition of gums, minerals, and vegetables, outwardly applied, to prevent the growth of wool upon two young lambs and he hoped in a reasonable time to propagate the breed of naked sheep all over the kingdom.