brood

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
2. The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
3. 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.
4. The children in one family; offspring.
5. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
6. Parentage.
7. Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

Adj

Kept or reared for breeding.

Verb

1. To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
2. To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
3. (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
4. To be bred.

Sinònims

hatch

incubate

sit on eggs

litter

pout

😡

sulk

worry

think

🤔

breed

clutch

ponder

stew

🍲

reflect

family

👪

bulk large

nest

loom

flock

hover

dwell

cover

stock

race

progeny

stud

flight

✈️

mull

grizzle

tribe

nurture

offspring

issue

keep still

lower

sit

🪑

covey

generation

drink in

drove

embrace

erst

exaltation

examine

field

filly

flush

fold

foment

gaggle

gender

gene

genus

grieve

grist

gulp

harbor

harbour

harem

hatching

hatch out

herd

hive

hug

ilk

increase

incubation

intrigue

kennel

kin

kind

kindle

knot

🪢

leash

mare

meditate

mob

mope

murder

muse

mustering

origination

overcome

pack

paddling

parliament

plaster

plump

pod

pounce

pride

procreation

production

rack one’s brains

raft

remember

repent

result

rookery

rout

ruminate

school

🏫

set

sex

👉👌

shelter

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

sounder

span

spawn

species

speculate

strain

string

🪢

study

swarm

team

tiding

tittering

cover eggs

train

🚋

trip

troop

wedge

wonder

harras

clowder

sit on

eclosion

children

hatch eggs

scratch one’s head

femalehorse

murmuration

hirsel

army

cete

ascension

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

be silent

bevy

bike

🚲

boar

🐗

brace

breeding

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

cerebrate

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

cogitate

colony

comfort

company

consider

contemplate

corps

deliberate

descendants

drift

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɹuːd/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: brood

Heretat de anglès antic: brōd

In summary

From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).