Synonyms:
brood
Meaning: the young of an animal cared for at one time
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
brood, dwell
Meaning: think moodily or anxiously about something
Synonyms:
brood, hover, loom, bulk_large
Meaning: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
Usage examples
The Piper and his brood will set up a new cosmos.
And we may be sure that the eldest boy in that brood never forgot the day.
Phil got away from the others as soon as he could, and hurried home to brood over it.
"That large and interesting brood of children in the little house at the end of the back garden?"
In the case of the Labyrinth Spider, the protection of the brood is complicated by another condition.
Repeated experiments have proved that no brood can be raised in a hive, unless the bees are supplied with it.
It is an oval of exquisite white muslin, a diaphanous abode wherein the mother must make a long stay to watch over the brood.
If we continue to unshell the kernel, we find, below this mineral layer, a last silken tunic that forms a globe around the brood.
In the latitude of New York and southward it hatches, as a rule, five or six broods in a season, with from four to six young in a brood.
It seemed odd, for there was her little cousin nesting out in the weeds in the bright sun, while she was raising her brood in the shady forest.