rearing

noun

rearing

noun

Etymology From Middle English rerynge (“raising”).

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.1896, The Progressive Bee-keeper, page 320:

Derived terms: childrearing

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