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61brood — /brud / (say broohd) noun 1. a number of young creatures produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young. 2. Colloquial a family: bring the whole brood over. 3. breed or kind. –verb (t) 4. to sit as a bird over (eggs or young);… …
62brood — [OE] Like breed, brood came from a prehistoric Germanic base *brōd , whose ultimate source was Indo European *bhrē ‘burn, heat’ (its other English descendants include braise, breath, and probably brawn). The underlying notion of brood is thus not …
63brood bud — Bulbil Bulb il, n. [Dim. fr. bulb.] 1. (Bot.) A small or secondary bulb; hence, now almost exclusively: An a[ e]rial bulb or deciduous bud, produced in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the flowers, as in some onions, and capable …
64brood-pouch — marsupium (the name applied to the brood pouch in Syngnathidae and Solenostomidae. In Syngnathidae it consists of a vascularized groove formed by flaps of skin along the underside of the tail of males (subcaudal marsupium); in Solenostomidae it… …
65brood canal — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Stylopidea, the passage between the female parasite and its puparium; a brood chamber …
66brood chamber — 1. (ARTHROPODA: Crustacea) a. In Cladocera, a dorsal space between the trunk and enveloping carapace containing developing eggs and newly hatched young. b. In Peracarida, a space arising from the coxae of the thoracic limbs, forming a marsupium… …
67brood pouch — Any space or sac like cavity utilized as a uterus, in which eggs or embryos are developed; a brood chamber, ovisac or marsupium …
68brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism. * * * …
69brood — 1. noun /bruːd/ a) The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. b) The young of any egg laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. Syn: flock, litter, young …
70brood — noun 1》 a family of young animals, especially birds, produced at one hatching or birth. 2》 bee or wasp larvae. verb 1》 think deeply about something that makes one unhappy. 2》 [as adjective brooding] appearing darkly menacing. 3》 (of a bird) sit… …
