brood English
Noun
( en noun)
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
* Bible, Luke xiii. 34
- As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
The children in one family.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
* Chapman
- Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
See also
* flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin
* cicada
Verb
( en verb)
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
To protect.
- Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
To dwell upon moodily and at length.
- He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
* Tennyson
- when with downcast eyes we muse and brood
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breeder Noun
( en noun)
A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.
(gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
- Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.
A type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons. (See Wikipedia's article on s.)
(slang, derogatory) a person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
* 1729 :
- The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders'; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand ' breeders .
(cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
Derived terms
* stockbreeder
Related terms
* breed
* breeder reactor
* brood
* brooding
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