Definition of brood in English:

brood

noun bruːdbrud

1A family of birds or other young animals produced at one hatching or birth.
一窝（小动物，尤指小鸟）
a brood of chicks
一窝小鸡。
Example sentencesExamples
- The birds prospecting for nesting sites were most attracted to areas where other birds had large broods of robust infants.
- Unlike in unmanipulated broods, hatch date did not affect the survival of experimental chicks.
- In birds, the competitive ability of chicks within a brood is strongly influenced by their relative size and developmental stage.
- The first nest containing a brood of tiny young was found in a slight depression in the ground beneath birches.
- One family had raised a brood of chicks in mid-July, and they had already grown quite a bit by this time.
- The male usually remains near the nest until incubation begins, and rarely stays with the brood once they hatch.
- In the summer of 1992, and apparently for the first time, two pairs of splendid great crested grebes successfully bred on the river in the city centre rearing broods of young.
- Both chicks from broods of two were treated similarly.
- A total of seven males stayed that long and would have successfully hatched their broods.
- Competition between siblings for resources is widespread in the broods of altricial birds.
- In six instances females started with a second clutch only about 1 week after chicks from the first brood had left the nest.
- Increased predation affects the survival of nests and broods immediately after hatching, when the chance of total loss is highest.
- Why, then, would a female Louisiana waterthrush on this densely wooded stream choose a partner already mated with another female and whose time would have to be divided among the young of two broods?
- Helpers are generally young from previous broods that provide care for their parents' offspring.
- I hope their nesting was successful and that they raised a healthy brood of chicks.
- Specifically, if females respond adaptively to changes in population density, they should produce large broods of small young at low density and small broods of large young at high density.
- Within three days of birth a brood of young may have been led a distance of almost a mile.
- My notebook reminds me of the scene: a dabchick swimming across the mere with a brood of tiny young all aboard and peeping from under the parent's wings.
- He incubates the eggs for around 23 days and tends the brood after they hatch.
- Limited observational and experimental studies of birds indicate that smaller broods are more often deserted.
Synonyms
offspring, young, progeny, spawn
family, hatch, clutch, nest, litter
rare progeniture
1. 1.1informal A large family of children.
  she was brought up as part of a brood of eight
  她由慈爱的继父养大，这位父亲总共拉扯大了八个孩子。
  Example sentencesExamples
  After the grandmother and her brood got off, a little fellow was dropped at a house.
  Just around the corner from me there is a French infants' school, and the street is clogged with cars each morning as elegant French mothers arrive with their smart little broods.
  This allows me to strike the work-family balance that I have chosen for myself and my little brood.
  She is one of a brood of eight, the majority of whom were female.
  His five sisters and their broods descend each summer creating an instant barrage of family noise.
  Synonyms
  family, household, ménage, clan, tribe
  children, offspring, youngsters, little ones, progeny, descendants, issue
  informal kids, sprogs
2mass noun Bee or wasp larvae.
幼蜂
Example sentencesExamples
- In honeybees, worker policing via egg eating enforces functional worker sterility in colonies with a queen and brood.
- Efficient concurrent functioning of both the guard and brood stealers is necessary to complete the task of stealing brood.
- We recorded the transport of brood, workers, and the queen to the new nest on videotape.
- Sealed worker brood was taken from the experimental colonies and incubated until adult emergence.
- Using this form of nest chamber enabled us to count the number of workers and brood in each subcolony without disturbing the nest.

verb bruːdbrud

1no object Think deeply about something that makes one unhappy, angry, or worried.
沉思，念念不忘（尤指不愉快的事）
she had brooded over the subject a thousand times
Example sentencesExamples
- He had several more days of work ahead of him in order to study all of the documents Eliot needed, and the more he brooded over it and regretted his hastiness, the more difficult it would be to concentrate on his work.
- I gasped, and ever since I have been brooding on the most tactful way to put it.
- Daniel pondered for a while and brooded over his coffee.
- But the star had been brooding on his own mortality since the assassination of President John F Kennedy three years earlier.
- He sat across from her as she sipped the hot chocolate he'd made while she was brooding on the living room sofa.
- Rather than brooding on the bench, MacMillan studied every pass, tackle, and shot.
- Sitting in a pub, brooding on fate's inexplicable blows, he encounters Geoff.
- Well they couldn't waste any time brooding on this because what if someone saw them?
- Later, brooding on what she witnessed, she steps into traffic and is knocked down.
- More than 30 years after the end of the war, Westermann was still brooding on the scenes he'd witnessed in the Pacific.
- Even as they sharpened swords and fitted the armor they had scavenged from the attics of retired soldiers of the village, they brooded over each of those missed opportunities to alter their fate.
- Where comedy was once light-hearted, it now seems to have turned into the television equivalent of Gordon Brown, a serious figure brooding on the great issues.
- Shortly after the row with Collins Stewart became public, a year ago this weekend, Middleweek was again brooding on his position.
- A severe attack usually coincides with a stinking hangover and can start as early as midday, from whence I will spend the rest of the weekend brooding on the inevitability of Monday morning.
- On March 12 of 2002 Senator Heffernan delivered a speech in the Senate he'd been brooding on for over a year.
- As Cara was brooding on this, she didn't hear someone come up behind her.
- Willie O'Dea sat quietly brooding on what might have been.
- Her sister was brooding on the bladed gauntlets and their meaning.
- ‘The day after the defeat is probably the worst, you start brooding on it, on what went wrong,’ Ford said.
- They seemed to be in a serious mood, perhaps brooding on the deteriorating human behaviour that cannot see that he is cutting the same very branch that he is sitting on.
Synonyms
worry about, fret about, agonize over, mope over, moon over, languish over, feel despondent about, grieve over, sulk about, eat one's heart out over
think about, ponder, contemplate, pore over, meditate on, muse on, mull over, dwell on, ruminate on/over, chew over, puzzle over, weigh up, turn over in one's mind
2with object (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch them.
（鸟儿）孵（蛋）
the male pheasant-tailed jacana takes over once the eggs are laid and broods them
Example sentencesExamples
- Once the young hatch, the female broods while the male continues to bring food.
- Once the young hatch, the female broods for about two weeks, and the male brings food to both the female and the young.
- All our study birds continued brooding and provisioning their chicks after the removal of telemetry gear.
- The chicks are virtually naked when they hatch and must be brooded on the parents' feet for about 50 days.
- In the first few days after the young hatch, the female broods the young almost continuously.
- Once the 3 to 5 eggs hatch, the female broods for about two weeks.
- Once the young hatch, the female broods for 8-10 days and the male bring food to both the female and the young.
- Incubation lasts 10 to 16 days; chicks hatch synchronously and are brooded for about 4 days depending on the weather.
- When the young hatch, the female broods them and the male brings food.
- Once the young hatch, the female broods them for about a week, and then joins the male in providing food for them.
- The female builds the nest and incubates and broods alone, but both parents feed the chicks, which fledge within 14-16 days of hatching.
- Many of the birds are already brooding aquamarine eggs, but some are still in the construction phase.
- Parents appear to brood newly hatched chicks for only a few days.
- Just recently, one of the most amazing fossils ever found was announced - an Oviraptor skeleton preserved brooding a clutch of eggs, just like a bird does.
- Females build the nest, incubate eggs, and brood nestlings, but both sexes choose the nest site and feed offspring.
- Once the young hatch, the female broods for about three weeks while the male brings food to her and the owlets.
- When the young hatch, the female broods and the male hunts.
- The eggs are brooded under the tail of the female for about 40 days.
- After the young hatch, the female broods for 1-2 weeks, and the male continues to provide all food.
- Incubation lasts 10 to 15 days and the altricial chicks are brooded for about 5 to 6 days after hatching.
Synonyms
incubate, cover, hatch, sit on
1. 2.1 (of a fish, frog, or invertebrate) hold (developing eggs) within the body.
  （鱼，青蛙或无脊椎动物）孕育（幼卵）
  Example sentencesExamples
  This sponge broods embryos and larvae at all times, allowing year-round access to biological material.
  A few sea urchins brood their eggs in special pouches, but most provide no parental care.
  In peracardians, eggs are brooded behind the thorax.
  Larger species of marine invertebrates that brood their young have evolved special ventilation mechanisms.
  The male broods the eggs and the average brood size is 200.
  Cichlids follow a typical developmental pattern but some species brood the eggs in the mouth while developing.
  Crinoids are gonochoric and brood their young until the embryo develops into a doliolarian larva or a fully formed juvenile crinoid.
  Like their seahorse relatives, male sea dragons brood the eggs.
  Fertilized eggs may be brooded for a time or may develop directly into a free-swimming, ciliated planula larva.
  Many cichlids brood the eggs in the mouth and, although rare, the free-swimming young of some species also rush into the parent's mouth for protection.
  The eggs are usually brooded in ovicells (swollen spherical chambers in which the fertilized egg develops into a larva).
  It's the Nursery Fish and like the Seahorse, the male broods the young, but not in a pouch.

adjectivebruːdbrud

attributive (of an animal) kept to be used for breeding.
（动物）传种的，为繁殖而饲养的
a brood mare
一匹母种马。
Example sentencesExamples
- For the second successive year Driffield-based hunter breeders Michael and Jeryl Grubb landed the county championship for home-bred brood mares.
- She also finds homes for elderly brood dogs from farms in Florida.
- You have to consider from whence come your brood stock, the animals you're actually working with.
- Those fish are used as brood fish in the state's restocking program and then released into the wild.
- We ne'er shall look upon her like again, unless we can prevail upon some Bedouin Chief to present us with a brood mare, and then the racing world shall see what a breed we shall introduce into this country.
- She has not been ridden in over 4 years as her previous owners used her as a brood mare.
- I have plans to use her as a brood mare if I can get her to heal.
- Like ‘matrix’ of course - how else to get from a brood cow to a rectangular grid of numbers?
- At the time when he married Sonia, she was not only ravishing but well provided for, and El Duende could buy more land and notably improve his stock of brood mares.
- And we know the importance of selecting a brood mare for an heir to the throne.
- He sold his business and, with his three sons and then wife, packed up a trailer filled with possessions - and 32 roosters and three brood hens - and headed for Oklahoma.
- Mr Norquoy hopes to acquire new brood stock from among the 24,000 pigeons on display.
- It's a huge commitment of time, resources and money to bring a litter of puppies into the world and I don't think that anyone who thinks it will be pure fun and profit should be let near a potential brood bitch.
- Just like humans, Greg advises owners to have their horse's teeth checked every six to eight months if they're being ridden - or every year if the hairy client is retired or a brood mare.
- Clark said biologists will do another steelhead count this week, which may determine if there are enough wild fish in the river to allow the hatchery to catch brood stock.
- Like Strouf, wheat and barley are his largest sources of income, with a small herd of 60 brood cows and hay encompassing over 2,000 acres.
- He's in his seventies now and it was just towards the end of his life that he came across good pedigrees, and they're the brood mares we've held on to.
- To the rear of Kelgara House brood mares graze in the fields of the neighbouring Meadow Court Stud.

Origin

Old English brōd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch broed and German Brut, also to breed. The verb was originally used with an object, i.e. 'to nurse (feelings) in the mind' (late 16th century), a figurative use of the idea of a hen nursing chicks under her wings.

Rhymes

allude, collude, conclude, crude, delude, dude, elude, étude, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, illude, include, intrude, Jude, lewd, mood, nude, obtrude, occlude, Oudh, preclude, protrude, prude, pseud, pultrude, rood, rude, seclude, shrewd, snood, transude, unglued, unsubdued, who'd, you'd

Definition of brood in US English:

brood

nounbro͞odbrud

1A family of young animals, especially of a bird, produced at one hatching or birth.
一窝（小动物，尤指小鸟）
a brood of chicks
一窝小鸡。
Example sentencesExamples
- The first nest containing a brood of tiny young was found in a slight depression in the ground beneath birches.
- Helpers are generally young from previous broods that provide care for their parents' offspring.
- In the summer of 1992, and apparently for the first time, two pairs of splendid great crested grebes successfully bred on the river in the city centre rearing broods of young.
- Competition between siblings for resources is widespread in the broods of altricial birds.
- Specifically, if females respond adaptively to changes in population density, they should produce large broods of small young at low density and small broods of large young at high density.
- A total of seven males stayed that long and would have successfully hatched their broods.
- One family had raised a brood of chicks in mid-July, and they had already grown quite a bit by this time.
- He incubates the eggs for around 23 days and tends the brood after they hatch.
- Both chicks from broods of two were treated similarly.
- The birds prospecting for nesting sites were most attracted to areas where other birds had large broods of robust infants.
- Why, then, would a female Louisiana waterthrush on this densely wooded stream choose a partner already mated with another female and whose time would have to be divided among the young of two broods?
- Within three days of birth a brood of young may have been led a distance of almost a mile.
- The male usually remains near the nest until incubation begins, and rarely stays with the brood once they hatch.
- Limited observational and experimental studies of birds indicate that smaller broods are more often deserted.
- In six instances females started with a second clutch only about 1 week after chicks from the first brood had left the nest.
- In birds, the competitive ability of chicks within a brood is strongly influenced by their relative size and developmental stage.
- Unlike in unmanipulated broods, hatch date did not affect the survival of experimental chicks.
- I hope their nesting was successful and that they raised a healthy brood of chicks.
- My notebook reminds me of the scene: a dabchick swimming across the mere with a brood of tiny young all aboard and peeping from under the parent's wings.
- Increased predation affects the survival of nests and broods immediately after hatching, when the chance of total loss is highest.
Synonyms
offspring, young, progeny, spawn
1. 1.1 Bee or wasp larvae.
  幼蜂
  Example sentencesExamples
  Using this form of nest chamber enabled us to count the number of workers and brood in each subcolony without disturbing the nest.
  Sealed worker brood was taken from the experimental colonies and incubated until adult emergence.
  Efficient concurrent functioning of both the guard and brood stealers is necessary to complete the task of stealing brood.
  In honeybees, worker policing via egg eating enforces functional worker sterility in colonies with a queen and brood.
  We recorded the transport of brood, workers, and the queen to the new nest on videotape.
2. 1.2informal All of the children in a family.
  〈非正式〉（一家的）所有孩子
  he was the youngest in a brood of six
  figurative a remarkable brood of writers
  Example sentencesExamples
  After the grandmother and her brood got off, a little fellow was dropped at a house.
  She is one of a brood of eight, the majority of whom were female.
  His five sisters and their broods descend each summer creating an instant barrage of family noise.
  This allows me to strike the work-family balance that I have chosen for myself and my little brood.
  Just around the corner from me there is a French infants' school, and the street is clogged with cars each morning as elegant French mothers arrive with their smart little broods.
  Synonyms
  family, household, ménage, clan, tribe

verbbro͞odbrud

1no object Think deeply about something that makes one unhappy.
沉思，念念不忘（尤指不愉快的事）
he brooded over his need to find a wife
Example sentencesExamples
- I gasped, and ever since I have been brooding on the most tactful way to put it.
- Sitting in a pub, brooding on fate's inexplicable blows, he encounters Geoff.
- But the star had been brooding on his own mortality since the assassination of President John F Kennedy three years earlier.
- He sat across from her as she sipped the hot chocolate he'd made while she was brooding on the living room sofa.
- A severe attack usually coincides with a stinking hangover and can start as early as midday, from whence I will spend the rest of the weekend brooding on the inevitability of Monday morning.
- Even as they sharpened swords and fitted the armor they had scavenged from the attics of retired soldiers of the village, they brooded over each of those missed opportunities to alter their fate.
- Willie O'Dea sat quietly brooding on what might have been.
- Well they couldn't waste any time brooding on this because what if someone saw them?
- As Cara was brooding on this, she didn't hear someone come up behind her.
- More than 30 years after the end of the war, Westermann was still brooding on the scenes he'd witnessed in the Pacific.
- Later, brooding on what she witnessed, she steps into traffic and is knocked down.
- On March 12 of 2002 Senator Heffernan delivered a speech in the Senate he'd been brooding on for over a year.
- They seemed to be in a serious mood, perhaps brooding on the deteriorating human behaviour that cannot see that he is cutting the same very branch that he is sitting on.
- Shortly after the row with Collins Stewart became public, a year ago this weekend, Middleweek was again brooding on his position.
- Rather than brooding on the bench, MacMillan studied every pass, tackle, and shot.
- Where comedy was once light-hearted, it now seems to have turned into the television equivalent of Gordon Brown, a serious figure brooding on the great issues.
- Daniel pondered for a while and brooded over his coffee.
- He had several more days of work ahead of him in order to study all of the documents Eliot needed, and the more he brooded over it and regretted his hastiness, the more difficult it would be to concentrate on his work.
- ‘The day after the defeat is probably the worst, you start brooding on it, on what went wrong,’ Ford said.
- Her sister was brooding on the bladed gauntlets and their meaning.
Synonyms
worry about, fret about, agonize over, mope over, moon over, languish over, feel despondent about, grieve over, sulk about, eat one's heart out over
2with object (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch them.
（鸟儿）孵（蛋）
Example sentencesExamples
- Once the young hatch, the female broods them for about a week, and then joins the male in providing food for them.
- Many of the birds are already brooding aquamarine eggs, but some are still in the construction phase.
- Once the young hatch, the female broods for about three weeks while the male brings food to her and the owlets.
- When the young hatch, the female broods and the male hunts.
- Once the young hatch, the female broods for about two weeks, and the male brings food to both the female and the young.
- After the young hatch, the female broods for 1-2 weeks, and the male continues to provide all food.
- Once the young hatch, the female broods for 8-10 days and the male bring food to both the female and the young.
- The female builds the nest and incubates and broods alone, but both parents feed the chicks, which fledge within 14-16 days of hatching.
- The eggs are brooded under the tail of the female for about 40 days.
- Once the 3 to 5 eggs hatch, the female broods for about two weeks.
- Parents appear to brood newly hatched chicks for only a few days.
- The chicks are virtually naked when they hatch and must be brooded on the parents' feet for about 50 days.
- In the first few days after the young hatch, the female broods the young almost continuously.
- Just recently, one of the most amazing fossils ever found was announced - an Oviraptor skeleton preserved brooding a clutch of eggs, just like a bird does.
- Once the young hatch, the female broods while the male continues to bring food.
- When the young hatch, the female broods them and the male brings food.
- Incubation lasts 10 to 15 days and the altricial chicks are brooded for about 5 to 6 days after hatching.
- All our study birds continued brooding and provisioning their chicks after the removal of telemetry gear.
- Females build the nest, incubate eggs, and brood nestlings, but both sexes choose the nest site and feed offspring.
- Incubation lasts 10 to 16 days; chicks hatch synchronously and are brooded for about 4 days depending on the weather.
Synonyms
incubate, cover, hatch, sit on
1. 2.1 (of a fish, frog, or invertebrate) hold (developing eggs) within the body.
  （鱼，青蛙或无脊椎动物）孕育（幼卵）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The male broods the eggs and the average brood size is 200.
  This sponge broods embryos and larvae at all times, allowing year-round access to biological material.
  Fertilized eggs may be brooded for a time or may develop directly into a free-swimming, ciliated planula larva.
  The eggs are usually brooded in ovicells (swollen spherical chambers in which the fertilized egg develops into a larva).
  A few sea urchins brood their eggs in special pouches, but most provide no parental care.
  It's the Nursery Fish and like the Seahorse, the male broods the young, but not in a pouch.
  Many cichlids brood the eggs in the mouth and, although rare, the free-swimming young of some species also rush into the parent's mouth for protection.
  Crinoids are gonochoric and brood their young until the embryo develops into a doliolarian larva or a fully formed juvenile crinoid.
  Larger species of marine invertebrates that brood their young have evolved special ventilation mechanisms.
  In peracardians, eggs are brooded behind the thorax.
  Cichlids follow a typical developmental pattern but some species brood the eggs in the mouth while developing.
  Like their seahorse relatives, male sea dragons brood the eggs.

adjectivebro͞odbrud

attributive (of an animal) kept to be used for breeding.
（动物）传种的，为繁殖而饲养的
a brood mare
一匹母种马。
Example sentencesExamples
- He sold his business and, with his three sons and then wife, packed up a trailer filled with possessions - and 32 roosters and three brood hens - and headed for Oklahoma.
- To the rear of Kelgara House brood mares graze in the fields of the neighbouring Meadow Court Stud.
- It's a huge commitment of time, resources and money to bring a litter of puppies into the world and I don't think that anyone who thinks it will be pure fun and profit should be let near a potential brood bitch.
- And we know the importance of selecting a brood mare for an heir to the throne.
- She also finds homes for elderly brood dogs from farms in Florida.
- Mr Norquoy hopes to acquire new brood stock from among the 24,000 pigeons on display.
- We ne'er shall look upon her like again, unless we can prevail upon some Bedouin Chief to present us with a brood mare, and then the racing world shall see what a breed we shall introduce into this country.
- Clark said biologists will do another steelhead count this week, which may determine if there are enough wild fish in the river to allow the hatchery to catch brood stock.
- Just like humans, Greg advises owners to have their horse's teeth checked every six to eight months if they're being ridden - or every year if the hairy client is retired or a brood mare.
- Like Strouf, wheat and barley are his largest sources of income, with a small herd of 60 brood cows and hay encompassing over 2,000 acres.
- You have to consider from whence come your brood stock, the animals you're actually working with.
- She has not been ridden in over 4 years as her previous owners used her as a brood mare.
- At the time when he married Sonia, she was not only ravishing but well provided for, and El Duende could buy more land and notably improve his stock of brood mares.
- Like ‘matrix’ of course - how else to get from a brood cow to a rectangular grid of numbers?
- He's in his seventies now and it was just towards the end of his life that he came across good pedigrees, and they're the brood mares we've held on to.
- For the second successive year Driffield-based hunter breeders Michael and Jeryl Grubb landed the county championship for home-bred brood mares.
- Those fish are used as brood fish in the state's restocking program and then released into the wild.
- I have plans to use her as a brood mare if I can get her to heal.

Origin

Old English brōd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch broed and German Brut, also to breed. The verb was originally used with an object, i.e. ‘to nurse (feelings) in the mind’ (late 16th century), a figurative use of the idea of a hen nursing chicks under her wings.

单词	brood
释义	Definition of brood in English: brood noun bruːdbrud 1A family of birds or other young animals produced at one hatching or birth. 一窝（小动物，尤指小鸟） a brood of chicks 一窝小鸡。 Example sentencesExamples The birds prospecting for nesting sites were most attracted to areas where other birds had large broods of robust infants. Unlike in unmanipulated broods, hatch date did not affect the survival of experimental chicks. In birds, the competitive ability of chicks within a brood is strongly influenced by their relative size and developmental stage. The first nest containing a brood of tiny young was found in a slight depression in the ground beneath birches. One family had raised a brood of chicks in mid-July, and they had already grown quite a bit by this time. The male usually remains near the nest until incubation begins, and rarely stays with the brood once they hatch. In the summer of 1992, and apparently for the first time, two pairs of splendid great crested grebes successfully bred on the river in the city centre rearing broods of young. Both chicks from broods of two were treated similarly. A total of seven males stayed that long and would have successfully hatched their broods. Competition between siblings for resources is widespread in the broods of altricial birds. In six instances females started with a second clutch only about 1 week after chicks from the first brood had left the nest. Increased predation affects the survival of nests and broods immediately after hatching, when the chance of total loss is highest. Why, then, would a female Louisiana waterthrush on this densely wooded stream choose a partner already mated with another female and whose time would have to be divided among the young of two broods? Helpers are generally young from previous broods that provide care for their parents' offspring. I hope their nesting was successful and that they raised a healthy brood of chicks. Specifically, if females respond adaptively to changes in population density, they should produce large broods of small young at low density and small broods of large young at high density. Within three days of birth a brood of young may have been led a distance of almost a mile. My notebook reminds me of the scene: a dabchick swimming across the mere with a brood of tiny young all aboard and peeping from under the parent's wings. He incubates the eggs for around 23 days and tends the brood after they hatch. Limited observational and experimental studies of birds indicate that smaller broods are more often deserted. Synonyms offspring, young, progeny, spawn family, hatch, clutch, nest, litter rare progeniture 1.1informal A large family of children. she was brought up as part of a brood of eight 她由慈爱的继父养大，这位父亲总共拉扯大了八个孩子。 Example sentencesExamples After the grandmother and her brood got off, a little fellow was dropped at a house. Just around the corner from me there is a French infants' school, and the street is clogged with cars each morning as elegant French mothers arrive with their smart little broods. This allows me to strike the work-family balance that I have chosen for myself and my little brood. She is one of a brood of eight, the majority of whom were female. His five sisters and their broods descend each summer creating an instant barrage of family noise. Synonyms family, household, ménage, clan, tribe children, offspring, youngsters, little ones, progeny, descendants, issue informal kids, sprogs 2mass noun Bee or wasp larvae. 幼蜂 Example sentencesExamples In honeybees, worker policing via egg eating enforces functional worker sterility in colonies with a queen and brood. Efficient concurrent functioning of both the guard and brood stealers is necessary to complete the task of stealing brood. We recorded the transport of brood, workers, and the queen to the new nest on videotape. Sealed worker brood was taken from the experimental colonies and incubated until adult emergence. Using this form of nest chamber enabled us to count the number of workers and brood in each subcolony without disturbing the nest. verb bruːdbrud 1no object Think deeply about something that makes one unhappy, angry, or worried. 沉思，念念不忘（尤指不愉快的事） she had brooded over the subject a thousand times Example sentencesExamples He had several more days of work ahead of him in order to study all of the documents Eliot needed, and the more he brooded over it and regretted his hastiness, the more difficult it would be to concentrate on his work. I gasped, and ever since I have been brooding on the most tactful way to put it. Daniel pondered for a while and brooded over his coffee. But the star had been brooding on his own mortality since the assassination of President John F Kennedy three years earlier. He sat across from her as she sipped the hot chocolate he'd made while she was brooding on the living room sofa. Rather than brooding on the bench, MacMillan studied every pass, tackle, and shot. Sitting in a pub, brooding on fate's inexplicable blows, he encounters Geoff. Well they couldn't waste any time brooding on this because what if someone saw them? Later, brooding on what she witnessed, she steps into traffic and is knocked down. More than 30 years after the end of the war, Westermann was still brooding on the scenes he'd witnessed in the Pacific. Even as they sharpened swords and fitted the armor they had scavenged from the attics of retired soldiers of the village, they brooded over each of those missed opportunities to alter their fate. Where comedy was once light-hearted, it now seems to have turned into the television equivalent of Gordon Brown, a serious figure brooding on the great issues. Shortly after the row with Collins Stewart became public, a year ago this weekend, Middleweek was again brooding on his position. A severe attack usually coincides with a stinking hangover and can start as early as midday, from whence I will spend the rest of the weekend brooding on the inevitability of Monday morning. On March 12 of 2002 Senator Heffernan delivered a speech in the Senate he'd been brooding on for over a year. As Cara was brooding on this, she didn't hear someone come up behind her. Willie O'Dea sat quietly brooding on what might have been. Her sister was brooding on the bladed gauntlets and their meaning. ‘The day after the defeat is probably the worst, you start brooding on it, on what went wrong,’ Ford said. They seemed to be in a serious mood, perhaps brooding on the deteriorating human behaviour that cannot see that he is cutting the same very branch that he is sitting on. Synonyms worry about, fret about, agonize over, mope over, moon over, languish over, feel despondent about, grieve over, sulk about, eat one's heart out over think about, ponder, contemplate, pore over, meditate on, muse on, mull over, dwell on, ruminate on/over, chew over, puzzle over, weigh up, turn over in one's mind 2with object (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch them. （鸟儿）孵（蛋） the male pheasant-tailed jacana takes over once the eggs are laid and broods them Example sentencesExamples Once the young hatch, the female broods while the male continues to bring food. Once the young hatch, the female broods for about two weeks, and the male brings food to both the female and the young. All our study birds continued brooding and provisioning their chicks after the removal of telemetry gear. The chicks are virtually naked when they hatch and must be brooded on the parents' feet for about 50 days. In the first few days after the young hatch, the female broods the young almost continuously. Once the 3 to 5 eggs hatch, the female broods for about two weeks. Once the young hatch, the female broods for 8-10 days and the male bring food to both the female and the young. Incubation lasts 10 to 16 days; chicks hatch synchronously and are brooded for about 4 days depending on the weather. When the young hatch, the female broods them and the male brings food. Once the young hatch, the female broods them for about a week, and then joins the male in providing food for them. The female builds the nest and incubates and broods alone, but both parents feed the chicks, which fledge within 14-16 days of hatching. Many of the birds are already brooding aquamarine eggs, but some are still in the construction phase. Parents appear to brood newly hatched chicks for only a few days. Just recently, one of the most amazing fossils ever found was announced - an Oviraptor skeleton preserved brooding a clutch of eggs, just like a bird does. Females build the nest, incubate eggs, and brood nestlings, but both sexes choose the nest site and feed offspring. Once the young hatch, the female broods for about three weeks while the male brings food to her and the owlets. When the young hatch, the female broods and the male hunts. The eggs are brooded under the tail of the female for about 40 days. After the young hatch, the female broods for 1-2 weeks, and the male continues to provide all food. Incubation lasts 10 to 15 days and the altricial chicks are brooded for about 5 to 6 days after hatching. Synonyms incubate, cover, hatch, sit on 2.1 (of a fish, frog, or invertebrate) hold (developing eggs) within the body. （鱼，青蛙或无脊椎动物）孕育（幼卵） Example sentencesExamples This sponge broods embryos and larvae at all times, allowing year-round access to biological material. A few sea urchins brood their eggs in special pouches, but most provide no parental care. In peracardians, eggs are brooded behind the thorax. Larger species of marine invertebrates that brood their young have evolved special ventilation mechanisms. The male broods the eggs and the average brood size is 200. Cichlids follow a typical developmental pattern but some species brood the eggs in the mouth while developing. Crinoids are gonochoric and brood their young until the embryo develops into a doliolarian larva or a fully formed juvenile crinoid. Like their seahorse relatives, male sea dragons brood the eggs. Fertilized eggs may be brooded for a time or may develop directly into a free-swimming, ciliated planula larva. Many cichlids brood the eggs in the mouth and, although rare, the free-swimming young of some species also rush into the parent's mouth for protection. The eggs are usually brooded in ovicells (swollen spherical chambers in which the fertilized egg develops into a larva). It's the Nursery Fish and like the Seahorse, the male broods the young, but not in a pouch. adjectivebruːdbrud attributive (of an animal) kept to be used for breeding. （动物）传种的，为繁殖而饲养的 a brood mare 一匹母种马。 Example sentencesExamples For the second successive year Driffield-based hunter breeders Michael and Jeryl Grubb landed the county championship for home-bred brood mares. She also finds homes for elderly brood dogs from farms in Florida. You have to consider from whence come your brood stock, the animals you're actually working with. Those fish are used as brood fish in the state's restocking program and then released into the wild. We ne'er shall look upon her like again, unless we can prevail upon some Bedouin Chief to present us with a brood mare, and then the racing world shall see what a breed we shall introduce into this country. She has not been ridden in over 4 years as her previous owners used her as a brood mare. I have plans to use her as a brood mare if I can get her to heal. Like ‘matrix’ of course - how else to get from a brood cow to a rectangular grid of numbers? At the time when he married Sonia, she was not only ravishing but well provided for, and El Duende could buy more land and notably improve his stock of brood mares. And we know the importance of selecting a brood mare for an heir to the throne. He sold his business and, with his three sons and then wife, packed up a trailer filled with possessions - and 32 roosters and three brood hens - and headed for Oklahoma. Mr Norquoy hopes to acquire new brood stock from among the 24,000 pigeons on display. It's a huge commitment of time, resources and money to bring a litter of puppies into the world and I don't think that anyone who thinks it will be pure fun and profit should be let near a potential brood bitch. Just like humans, Greg advises owners to have their horse's teeth checked every six to eight months if they're being ridden - or every year if the hairy client is retired or a brood mare. Clark said biologists will do another steelhead count this week, which may determine if there are enough wild fish in the river to allow the hatchery to catch brood stock. Like Strouf, wheat and barley are his largest sources of income, with a small herd of 60 brood cows and hay encompassing over 2,000 acres. He's in his seventies now and it was just towards the end of his life that he came across good pedigrees, and they're the brood mares we've held on to. To the rear of Kelgara House brood mares graze in the fields of the neighbouring Meadow Court Stud. Origin Old English brōd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch broed and German Brut, also to breed. The verb was originally used with an object, i.e. 'to nurse (feelings) in the mind' (late 16th century), a figurative use of the idea of a hen nursing chicks under her wings. Rhymes allude, collude, conclude, crude, delude, dude, elude, étude, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, illude, include, intrude, Jude, lewd, mood, nude, obtrude, occlude, Oudh, preclude, protrude, prude, pseud, pultrude, rood, rude, seclude, shrewd, snood, transude, unglued, unsubdued, who'd, you'd Definition of brood in US English: brood nounbro͞odbrud 1A family of young animals, especially of a bird, produced at one hatching or birth. 一窝（小动物，尤指小鸟） a brood of chicks 一窝小鸡。 Example sentencesExamples The first nest containing a brood of tiny young was found in a slight depression in the ground beneath birches. Helpers are generally young from previous broods that provide care for their parents' offspring. In the summer of 1992, and apparently for the first time, two pairs of splendid great crested grebes successfully bred on the river in the city centre rearing broods of young. Competition between siblings for resources is widespread in the broods of altricial birds. Specifically, if females respond adaptively to changes in population density, they should produce large broods of small young at low density and small broods of large young at high density. A total of seven males stayed that long and would have successfully hatched their broods. One family had raised a brood of chicks in mid-July, and they had already grown quite a bit by this time. He incubates the eggs for around 23 days and tends the brood after they hatch. Both chicks from broods of two were treated similarly. The birds prospecting for nesting sites were most attracted to areas where other birds had large broods of robust infants. Why, then, would a female Louisiana waterthrush on this densely wooded stream choose a partner already mated with another female and whose time would have to be divided among the young of two broods? Within three days of birth a brood of young may have been led a distance of almost a mile. The male usually remains near the nest until incubation begins, and rarely stays with the brood once they hatch. Limited observational and experimental studies of birds indicate that smaller broods are more often deserted. In six instances females started with a second clutch only about 1 week after chicks from the first brood had left the nest. In birds, the competitive ability of chicks within a brood is strongly influenced by their relative size and developmental stage. Unlike in unmanipulated broods, hatch date did not affect the survival of experimental chicks. I hope their nesting was successful and that they raised a healthy brood of chicks. My notebook reminds me of the scene: a dabchick swimming across the mere with a brood of tiny young all aboard and peeping from under the parent's wings. Increased predation affects the survival of nests and broods immediately after hatching, when the chance of total loss is highest. Synonyms offspring, young, progeny, spawn 1.1 Bee or wasp larvae. 幼蜂 Example sentencesExamples Using this form of nest chamber enabled us to count the number of workers and brood in each subcolony without disturbing the nest. Sealed worker brood was taken from the experimental colonies and incubated until adult emergence. Efficient concurrent functioning of both the guard and brood stealers is necessary to complete the task of stealing brood. In honeybees, worker policing via egg eating enforces functional worker sterility in colonies with a queen and brood. We recorded the transport of brood, workers, and the queen to the new nest on videotape. 1.2informal All of the children in a family. 〈非正式〉（一家的）所有孩子 he was the youngest in a brood of six figurative a remarkable brood of writers Example sentencesExamples After the grandmother and her brood got off, a little fellow was dropped at a house. She is one of a brood of eight, the majority of whom were female. His five sisters and their broods descend each summer creating an instant barrage of family noise. This allows me to strike the work-family balance that I have chosen for myself and my little brood. Just around the corner from me there is a French infants' school, and the street is clogged with cars each morning as elegant French mothers arrive with their smart little broods. Synonyms family, household, ménage, clan, tribe verbbro͞odbrud 1no object Think deeply about something that makes one unhappy. 沉思，念念不忘（尤指不愉快的事） he brooded over his need to find a wife Example sentencesExamples I gasped, and ever since I have been brooding on the most tactful way to put it. Sitting in a pub, brooding on fate's inexplicable blows, he encounters Geoff. But the star had been brooding on his own mortality since the assassination of President John F Kennedy three years earlier. He sat across from her as she sipped the hot chocolate he'd made while she was brooding on the living room sofa. A severe attack usually coincides with a stinking hangover and can start as early as midday, from whence I will spend the rest of the weekend brooding on the inevitability of Monday morning. Even as they sharpened swords and fitted the armor they had scavenged from the attics of retired soldiers of the village, they brooded over each of those missed opportunities to alter their fate. Willie O'Dea sat quietly brooding on what might have been. Well they couldn't waste any time brooding on this because what if someone saw them? As Cara was brooding on this, she didn't hear someone come up behind her. More than 30 years after the end of the war, Westermann was still brooding on the scenes he'd witnessed in the Pacific. Later, brooding on what she witnessed, she steps into traffic and is knocked down. On March 12 of 2002 Senator Heffernan delivered a speech in the Senate he'd been brooding on for over a year. They seemed to be in a serious mood, perhaps brooding on the deteriorating human behaviour that cannot see that he is cutting the same very branch that he is sitting on. Shortly after the row with Collins Stewart became public, a year ago this weekend, Middleweek was again brooding on his position. Rather than brooding on the bench, MacMillan studied every pass, tackle, and shot. Where comedy was once light-hearted, it now seems to have turned into the television equivalent of Gordon Brown, a serious figure brooding on the great issues. Daniel pondered for a while and brooded over his coffee. He had several more days of work ahead of him in order to study all of the documents Eliot needed, and the more he brooded over it and regretted his hastiness, the more difficult it would be to concentrate on his work. ‘The day after the defeat is probably the worst, you start brooding on it, on what went wrong,’ Ford said. Her sister was brooding on the bladed gauntlets and their meaning. Synonyms worry about, fret about, agonize over, mope over, moon over, languish over, feel despondent about, grieve over, sulk about, eat one's heart out over 2with object (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch them. （鸟儿）孵（蛋） Example sentencesExamples Once the young hatch, the female broods them for about a week, and then joins the male in providing food for them. Many of the birds are already brooding aquamarine eggs, but some are still in the construction phase. Once the young hatch, the female broods for about three weeks while the male brings food to her and the owlets. When the young hatch, the female broods and the male hunts. Once the young hatch, the female broods for about two weeks, and the male brings food to both the female and the young. After the young hatch, the female broods for 1-2 weeks, and the male continues to provide all food. Once the young hatch, the female broods for 8-10 days and the male bring food to both the female and the young. The female builds the nest and incubates and broods alone, but both parents feed the chicks, which fledge within 14-16 days of hatching. The eggs are brooded under the tail of the female for about 40 days. Once the 3 to 5 eggs hatch, the female broods for about two weeks. Parents appear to brood newly hatched chicks for only a few days. The chicks are virtually naked when they hatch and must be brooded on the parents' feet for about 50 days. In the first few days after the young hatch, the female broods the young almost continuously. Just recently, one of the most amazing fossils ever found was announced - an Oviraptor skeleton preserved brooding a clutch of eggs, just like a bird does. Once the young hatch, the female broods while the male continues to bring food. When the young hatch, the female broods them and the male brings food. Incubation lasts 10 to 15 days and the altricial chicks are brooded for about 5 to 6 days after hatching. All our study birds continued brooding and provisioning their chicks after the removal of telemetry gear. Females build the nest, incubate eggs, and brood nestlings, but both sexes choose the nest site and feed offspring. Incubation lasts 10 to 16 days; chicks hatch synchronously and are brooded for about 4 days depending on the weather. Synonyms incubate, cover, hatch, sit on 2.1 (of a fish, frog, or invertebrate) hold (developing eggs) within the body. （鱼，青蛙或无脊椎动物）孕育（幼卵） Example sentencesExamples The male broods the eggs and the average brood size is 200. This sponge broods embryos and larvae at all times, allowing year-round access to biological material. Fertilized eggs may be brooded for a time or may develop directly into a free-swimming, ciliated planula larva. The eggs are usually brooded in ovicells (swollen spherical chambers in which the fertilized egg develops into a larva). A few sea urchins brood their eggs in special pouches, but most provide no parental care. It's the Nursery Fish and like the Seahorse, the male broods the young, but not in a pouch. Many cichlids brood the eggs in the mouth and, although rare, the free-swimming young of some species also rush into the parent's mouth for protection. Crinoids are gonochoric and brood their young until the embryo develops into a doliolarian larva or a fully formed juvenile crinoid. Larger species of marine invertebrates that brood their young have evolved special ventilation mechanisms. In peracardians, eggs are brooded behind the thorax. Cichlids follow a typical developmental pattern but some species brood the eggs in the mouth while developing. Like their seahorse relatives, male sea dragons brood the eggs. adjectivebro͞odbrud attributive (of an animal) kept to be used for breeding. （动物）传种的，为繁殖而饲养的 a brood mare 一匹母种马。 Example sentencesExamples He sold his business and, with his three sons and then wife, packed up a trailer filled with possessions - and 32 roosters and three brood hens - and headed for Oklahoma. To the rear of Kelgara House brood mares graze in the fields of the neighbouring Meadow Court Stud. It's a huge commitment of time, resources and money to bring a litter of puppies into the world and I don't think that anyone who thinks it will be pure fun and profit should be let near a potential brood bitch. And we know the importance of selecting a brood mare for an heir to the throne. She also finds homes for elderly brood dogs from farms in Florida. Mr Norquoy hopes to acquire new brood stock from among the 24,000 pigeons on display. We ne'er shall look upon her like again, unless we can prevail upon some Bedouin Chief to present us with a brood mare, and then the racing world shall see what a breed we shall introduce into this country. Clark said biologists will do another steelhead count this week, which may determine if there are enough wild fish in the river to allow the hatchery to catch brood stock. Just like humans, Greg advises owners to have their horse's teeth checked every six to eight months if they're being ridden - or every year if the hairy client is retired or a brood mare. Like Strouf, wheat and barley are his largest sources of income, with a small herd of 60 brood cows and hay encompassing over 2,000 acres. You have to consider from whence come your brood stock, the animals you're actually working with. She has not been ridden in over 4 years as her previous owners used her as a brood mare. At the time when he married Sonia, she was not only ravishing but well provided for, and El Duende could buy more land and notably improve his stock of brood mares. Like ‘matrix’ of course - how else to get from a brood cow to a rectangular grid of numbers? He's in his seventies now and it was just towards the end of his life that he came across good pedigrees, and they're the brood mares we've held on to. For the second successive year Driffield-based hunter breeders Michael and Jeryl Grubb landed the county championship for home-bred brood mares. Those fish are used as brood fish in the state's restocking program and then released into the wild. I have plans to use her as a brood mare if I can get her to heal. Origin Old English brōd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch broed and German Brut, also to breed. The verb was originally used with an object, i.e. ‘to nurse (feelings) in the mind’ (late 16th century), a figurative use of the idea of a hen nursing chicks under her wings.
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