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Adjective
/bro͞od/,
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broods, plural;
  1. (of an animal) Kept to be used for breeding
    • - a brood mare
Verb
  1. Think deeply about something that makes one unhappy
    • - he brooded over his need to find a wife
  2. (of a bird) Sit on (eggs) to hatch them

  3. (of a fish, frog, or invertebrate) Hold (developing eggs) within the body

  4. (of silence, a storm, etc.) Hang or hover closely
    • - a winter storm broods over the lake
Noun
  1. A family of young animals, esp. of a bird, produced at one hatching or birth
    • - a brood of chicks
  2. Bee or wasp larvae

  3. All of the children in a family
    • - she was brought up by a loving stepfather as part of a brood of eight
  4. A group of things or people having a similar character
    • - a remarkable brood of writers
  1. the young of an animal cared for at one time
  2. think moodily or anxiously about something
  3. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
  4. sulk: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"
  5. grizzle: be in a huff; be silent or sullen
  6. sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
  7. The Brood are a race of insect-like, parasitic, extraterrestrial beings that appear in the comic books published by Marvel Comics, especially Uncanny X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum, they first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #155 (March 1982).
  8. In entomology, the term brood is used to refer to the embryo or egg, the larva and the pupa stages in the life of holometabolous insects. The brood of honey bees develops within a bee hive. ...
  9. The Brood is a 1979 Canadian horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle. It was filmed in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario. In 2004, one of its sequences was voted #78 among the "100 Scariest Movie Moments" by the Bravo Channel. ...
  10. The Brood is the seventh studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. The album reached #22 on the Dutch album chart on 16 June 1984, and stayed on the chart for 17 weeks.
  11. The Brood was a crossover thrash band from Venice, California featuring former members of Suicidal Tendencies and Neighborhood Watch.
  12. The Brood was a stable in the World Wrestling Federation during The Attitude Era of the late 1990s. The stable was composed of Gangrel, Christian, and Edge. Their gimmick was that of a clan of vampires, although they were often merely described by announcers as living a "gothic lifestyle".
  13. (brooded (adj)) Having the confirmed ability to breed
  14. (Brooded) The female crustacean looks after the eggs while they develop, usually under an abdominal flap.
  15. this could either mean the hens incubating their chicks or a flock of baby chickens.
  16. To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman, your cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be in your care, and some of them will prove wayward and unruly. Brood, to others, denotes accumulation of wealth.
  17. Immature or developing stages of bees; includes eggs, larvae (unsealed brood), and pupae (sealed brood).
  18. bees not yet emerged from their cells: eggs, larvae, and pupae.
  19. the young of certain animals; in fire ants, the eggs, larvae and pupae make up the brood
  20. a group of young produced at the same time; cf. cohort.
  21. To protect young birds by sitting on them; also, nestful of young birds is a called a "brood."
  22. Group of young. Some animals mate and have more than one brood in a year.
  23. The young hatched from a clutch of eggs; a species of bird may have two or even three broods in a single breeding season.
  24. To incubate and protect eggs until hatching.
  25. A single generation of a population. Hence double-brooded refers to a species having 2 generations per year.