broods
Meaning of broods
- a family of birds or other young animals produced at one hatching or birth.
a brood of chicks
- bee or wasp larvae.
- think deeply about something that makes one unhappy, angry, or worried.
she had brooded over the subject a thousand times
- (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch them.
the male pheasant-tailed jacana takes over once the eggs are laid and broods them
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.
Information about broods
- The singular form of broods is: brood.
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Hyphenation of broods
broods
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- broods is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
broods synonyms
Meaning a person's child or children:
Meaning offspring, especially of an animal before or soon after birth:
Meaning a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring:
Meaning the eggs of fish, frogs, etc:
Meaning a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit:
Meaning a door in an aircraft, spacecraft, or submarine:
Meaning a tight grasp:
Meaning a structure or place made or chosen by a bird for laying eggs and sheltering its young:
Meaning a number of young animals born to an animal at one time:
Meaning the production of offspring; procreation:
Meaning think about (something) carefully, especially before making a decision or reaching a conclusion:
Meaning look thoughtfully for a long time at:
Meaning (of a bird) sit on (eggs) in order to keep them warm and bring them to hatching:
Meaning put something on top of or in front of (something), especially in order to protect or conceal it:
Anagrams of broods
boords, Dobros, dobros, droobs
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