a brood of chicks
1brood — [n] cluster of children begats, breed, chicks, clutch, descendants, family, flock, hatch, infants, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, young; concept 296 Ant. child brood [v] agonize over be in brown study*,… …
2brood|er — «BROO duhr», noun. 1. a closed place that can be heated, used especially in raising chicks and other fowl. 2. a person who broods. 3. a hen hatching or ready to hatch eggs …
3Northern Jacana — In Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica Conservation status …
4chick — n. 1) to hatch chicks 2) chicks cheep 3) a brood of chicks * * * [tʃɪk] a brood of chicks to hatch chick s chicks cheep …
5Albatross — This article is about the bird family. For other uses, see Albatross (disambiguation). Albatross Temporal range: Oligocene–recent …
6Swallow — This article is about the family of birds. For the action, see Swallowing. For other uses, see Swallow (disambiguation). Swallows Red rumped Swallow Scientific classificatio …
7caprimulgiform — ▪ order of birds Introduction also called nightjars any of about 120 species of soft plumaged birds (bird), the major groups of which are called nightjars (nightjar), nighthawks (nighthawk), potoos (potoo), frogmouths (frogmouth), and owlet… …
8Falconidae — Taxobox name = Falcons and caracaras image width = 240px image caption = Brown Falcon Falco berigora regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Falconiformes familia = Falconidae familia authority = Vigors, 1824 subdivision ranks …
9clutch — clutch1 or clutch bag [kluch] vt. [ME clucchen < OE clyccan, to clench (infl. in meaning by ME cloke, a claw) < IE * glek (> CLING) < base * gel : see CLIMB] 1. to grasp, seize, or snatch with a hand or claw 2. to grasp or hold… …
10clutch — I. verb Etymology: Middle English clucchen, from Old English clyccan Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to grasp or hold with or as if with the hand or claws usually strongly, tightly, or suddenly 2. obsolete clench intransitive verb …