0 present participle of rear
1 to care for young animals or children until they are able to care for themselves:
She's reared four children very successfully.
He grew up in Hoboken, where Sinatra was reared.
He took me to the North Georgia mountains where he was reared.
Most pigs reared for meat are killed around 18-20 years old.
The animals are reared for breeding purposes rather than the dinner table.
In contrast, survival was not reduced under stressful rearing conditions.
We did not find that contamination during rearing was significant in relation to the contamination of the end product.
The interaction of plot rearing environment was used as the error term to determine differences in rearing environment.
