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(Entry 1 of 3) 1 : the young of an animal or a family of young especially : the young (as of a bird or insect) hatched or cared for at one time a hen with her brood of chicks.
- How many is in a brood?
- What does brood mean for birds?
- What is a large brood?
- Does brood mean family?
- What is brood in a beehive?
- Is brood intransitive?
- Do male birds brood?
- What does brood mean in slang?
- What does to sulk mean?
- What is the difference between a clutch and a brood?
- What is brood chamber?
- What does brood mean in the Bible?
- Who is a brute?
- What molting means?
How many is in a brood?
About Broods
Size: While the term brood is generally only applied to multiple chicks, bird broods can range from one to 15 or more eggs or chicks depending on the species.
What does brood mean for birds?
brooding, in zoology, pattern of behaviour of certain egg-laying animals, especially birds, marked by cessation of egg laying and readiness to sit on and incubate eggs.
What is a large brood?
countable noun. You can refer to someone's young children as their brood when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them. [emphasis] ...a large brood of children.
Does brood mean family?
a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young. a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.
What is brood in a beehive?
In beekeeping, bee brood or brood refers to the eggs, larvae and pupae of honeybees. The brood of Western honey bees develops within a bee hive. ... During the brood raising season, the bees may reuse the cells from which brood has emerged for additional brood or convert it to honey or pollen storage.
Is brood intransitive?
noun The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together. noun The children in one family. intransitive verb To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry. ... intransitive verb To sit on or hatch eggs.
Do male birds brood?
But in some 90% of bird species, the males stay around to help: They share the duties of nest-building, incubate eggs, feed brooding females and the chicks, even train their young for independent life.
What does brood mean in slang?
A brood is a group of young born at the same time — like a brood of chicks — but your parents might use the word for you and your siblings: "We're taking the whole brood to the movies tonight."
What does to sulk mean?
: to be angry or irritable about something but childishly refuse to talk about it. sulk. noun. Kids Definition of sulk (Entry 2 of 2) 1 : the state of a person who is sullenly silent or irritable He has a case of the sulks.
What is the difference between a clutch and a brood?
As nouns the difference between brood and clutch
is that brood is the young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother while clutch is the claw of a predatory animal or bird or clutch can be a brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
What is brood chamber?
The brood chamber (usually in the bottom boxes of the hive) houses worker-made cells where the eggs, larvae and pupae develop. Some of the cells in this part of the hive also hold pollen, nectar or honey that's used to feed the developing larvae.
What does brood mean in the Bible?
b : to sit quietly and thoughtfully : meditate. 2 : hover, loom the old fort brooding above the valley. 3a : to dwell gloomily on a subject brooded over his mistake.
Who is a brute?
brute. noun. Definition of brute (Entry 2 of 2) 1 : beast. 2 : one who lacks intelligence, sensitivity, or compassion : a brutal person.
What molting means?
molt, also spelled Moult, biological process of molting (moulting)—i.e., the shedding or casting off of an outer layer or covering and the formation of its replacement. ... It includes the shedding and replacement of horns, hair, skin, and feathers.
