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Verb
/bro͞od/,
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broods, plural;
  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. (brood) the young of an animal cared for at one time
  2. (brood) think moodily or anxiously about something
  3. (brood) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
  4. (brood) sulk: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"
  5. (brood) grizzle: be in a huff; be silent or sullen
  6. (brood) sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
  7. (Brood (comics)) 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. (Brood (honeybee)) 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) 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. ...
  10. (The Brood (album)) 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 (band)) The Brood was a crossover thrash band from Venice, California featuring former members of Suicidal Tendencies and Neighborhood Watch.
  12. (The Brood (professional wrestling)) 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. ...
  13. (Brood) A generation of young from a common female
  14. (Brood) bees not yet emerged from their cells: eggs, larvae, and pupae.
  15. (Brood) All the individuals that hatch at about one time from eggs laid by one series of parents and that normally mature at about the same time; a group of individuals of a species that have hatched into young or have become adult at approximately the same time, and live together in a defined ...
  16. (Brood) Immature or developing stages of bees; includes eggs, larvae (unsealed brood), and pupae (sealed brood).
  17. (Brood) Young birds that were hatched at the same time and raised together; some birds have more than one brood per nesting season
  18. (BROOD) TO SIT IN ODER TO HATCH
  19. (BROOD) To protect young birds by sitting on them; also, nestful of young birds is a called a "brood."
  20. (Brood (brood_year)) The year when the adults, producing the progeny tagged, returned to spawn. If more than one brood present, as in some wild stock tagging projects, the year reported is the dominant or first brood year.
  21. (Brood) A group of vampires gathered around a single leader.
  22. (Brood) A group of young animals such as birds in a nest, or the process by which the parent birds maintain the body heat of the young in a nest by sitting on or over the young.
  23. (Brood) Family unit of sibling ducks.
  24. (Brood) From the time the Queen lays her egg to the time the young Bee emerges is considered Brood.
  25. (Brood) The young hatched from a clutch of eggs; a species of bird may have two or even three broods in a single breeding season.