Brood

  • 11brood — [n] cluster of children begats, breed, chicks, clutch, descendants, family, flock, hatch, infants, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, young; concept 296 Ant. child brood [v] agonize over be in brown study*,… …

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  • 12brood — brood. См. расплод. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 13Brood — Brood, Stadt, s. Brod …

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  • 14brood — I verb agonize, be dejected, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate over, despair, despond, dwell upon, fret, grieve, incubare, meditate on, mope, morbidly meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, study, sulk, think anxiously,… …

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  • 15brood — ► NOUN 1) a family of young animals produced at one hatching or birth. 2) informal all the children in a family. ► VERB 1) think deeply about an unpleasant subject. 2) (brooding) appearing darkly menacing. 3) (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch… …

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  • 16brood|er — «BROO duhr», noun. 1. a closed place that can be heated, used especially in raising chicks and other fowl. 2. a person who broods. 3. a hen hatching or ready to hatch eggs …

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  • 17Brood — Herman Brood. Herman Brood (* 5. November 1946 in Zwolle, Niederlande; † 11. Juli 2001 in Amsterdam) war ein niederländischer Rockmusiker und Maler. Inhaltsverzeichnis …

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  • 18brood — broodless, adj. /broohd/, n. 1. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young. 2. a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures. v.t. 3. to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as …

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  • 19brood — {{11}}brood (n.) O.E. brod brood, fetus, hatchling, from P.Gmc. *brod (Cf. M.Du. broet, O.H.G. bruot, Ger. Brut brood ), lit. that which is hatched by heat, from *bro to warm, heat, from PIE *bhre burn, heat, incubate, from root *bhreue …

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  • 20brood — I UK [bruːd] / US [brud] verb [intransitive] Word forms brood : present tense I/you/we/they brood he/she/it broods present participle brooding past tense brooded past participle brooded 1) to think and worry about something a lot brood about/over …

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