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brood
has definitions from the fields of biology,zoology
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[ noun ] (biology,zoology) the young of an animal cared for at one time
Used in print (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)The broods of workers that appear later tend to be bigger than the first ones , probably because they are better fed . In most places , there are two generations a year , a second brood of adults appearing late in the summer . (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)A brood of twenty-eight born at Brookfield_Zoo , near Chicago , ranged in_length from 22 to 33 - 1 2 inches and averaged 29 inches . Lawrence_E_._Griffin gives measurements of nineteen young anacondas , presumably members of a brood , from `` South_America '' ; the extreme measurements of these fall between the lower_limit of the Brookfield brood and its average . Lawrence_E_._Griffin gives measurements of nineteen young anacondas , presumably members of a brood , from `` South_America '' ; the extreme measurements of these fall between the lower_limit of the Brookfield brood and its average . Related terms |
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[ verb ] think moodily or anxiously about something
Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)There the objective sat , brooding over all . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)Bake himself looked better ; any kind of job was better than brooding . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)Moreland sat brooding for a full minute , during which I made each of us a new drink . |
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[ verb ] hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
Synonyms Examples "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" Related terms |
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