breeder

Meaning

Noun

• A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
• A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
• A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
• ; a type of nuclear reactor that creates more fissile material than it consumes, often used for the production of atomic weapons.
• A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.

Origin

• breed + -er.