artificial selection

The breeding of plants and animals to produce desirable traits. Organisms with the desired traits, such as size or taste, are artificially mated or cross-pollinated with organisms with similar desired traits.

"If art by artificial selection, why not Nature by natural selection?"

Evolution

Joseph Le Conte

by zenda gothic May 24, 2016

selective hoeing

Selective hoeing is the act of being of hoe. But not just being a hoe for anybody, you're very selective of who you send them booty pics to. For example, you could have 10 niggas in your DM's and only be picking and choosing specific ones.

Girl 1: "Damn Becky, you've been a real hoe lately."
Girl 2: "It's not just regular hoeing, it's selective hoeing."

by OmareBeach December 6, 2016

selective poking

When you have many pokes to reply to on Facebook, and you choose to reply to only certain ones to save time.

Katie-I poked you months ago and you still haven't replied!
Jessie-I've been selective poking, I had too many, but you're next, I promise!

by sillyolivia April 26, 2011

Select Male

Select Males are Men that women tend gravitate towards first as opposed to less attractive guys because they are attractive whether it be with looks or money or a combination of the two. These dudes are likely to get “Choosing Signals” from girls as a result of being Select Males, but even if you are a “Select Male” it doesn’t guarantee that will get women…especially if you have a terrible personality and no social skills.

Dashaun is a select male (at least assumed to be a select male) because he is a 6ft model that is fit and makes good money.

by somedudewithnothingbettertodo April 27, 2023

Selective Filming

The act of choosing to film some aspects of a moment and leaving out others.

Dude, you so did selective filming on that video so it looked like the other guy beat me in Punch Out!!

by AranRyan123 May 30, 2009

selective capitalization

When you decide to capitalize certain proper nouns based on whether or not you like the person, place, or thing.

"I really enjoy the Keith Olbermann show."
"Cool, how do you feel about the Sean Hannity show?"
"I hate sean hannity."
"Using selective capitalization, huh?"
"Indeed."

by MRMEX July 8, 2009

selective syndrome

Selective schools are specific schools across Australia that accept 6th graders for high school when they pass the selective school test. During their time here, they may suffer from 'selective syndrome' (which can occur anytime and anywhere) where they loose their intellectuallity and succumb to the state of normallity (AKA the mainstream classes' state).

"Hey Janice, what happened to poor Carol over there. She looks a bit unstable"
"Oh don't worry about her, she's got selective syndrome. It'll wear off sooner or later"
"Well I hope it does, since we have a maths test next period"

by im.notgay May 10, 2019