brood
Hen's young collectively
Brood works both as noun and verb around the idea of offspring and dwelling on them.
A brood is a group of young hatched or born together: a brood of chicks, a brood of puppies.
Extended humorously to human children: She arrived with her whole brood.
To brood is to sit on eggs to hatch them, or more commonly, to dwell moodily on something troubling: He brooded over the insult for days.
A brooding person is darkly thoughtful, often attractively so: his brooding intensity.
Animal-built shelter for young
- eggsReproductive cells in shells
- hatchOpening in deck or floor
- warmthHeat you feel
- sittingBeing in seated posture
clutch · maternal · nurture · nesting · hen · roosting · hatching · gestation
Newly hatched birds
- hatchlingsRecently emerged young animals
- nestlingsUnfledged young birds
- fledglingsYoung birds with feathers
- clutchMechanism linking engine to gearbox
litter · young · progeny · spawn · babies · juveniles · puppies · kittens
Inhabit a place
- ponderThink deeply about
- mullDeliberate at length
- obsessDwell on compulsively
- stewSlow-simmered meat dish
fret · worry · agonize · fixate · overthink · mope · sulk · contemplate
Prone to sullenness
- sullenSilently bad-tempered
- somberGravely serious in mood
- pensiveQuietly, sadly thoughtful
- moroseSullenly ill-humored
gloomy · dark · troubled · withdrawn · introspective · dejected · despondent · wistful
nest
Animal-built shelter for young
sitting · clutch · maternal · nurture · nesting · hen · roosting · hatching · gestation · laying
chicks
Newly hatched birds
- hatchlingsRecently emerged young animals
- nestlingsUnfledged young birds
- fledglingsYoung birds with feathers
clutch · litter · young · progeny · spawn · babies · juveniles · puppies · kittens · piglets
dwell
Inhabit a place
stew · fret · worry · agonize · fixate · overthink · mope · sulk · contemplate · meditate
moody
Prone to sullenness
morose · gloomy · dark · troubled · withdrawn · introspective · dejected · despondent · wistful · heavy
hive
Bee dwelling structure
queen · workers · drones · honeycomb · apiary · beekeeper · honeybee
clan
Related group sharing ancestry
descendants · progeny · household · children · siblings · dynasty · bloodline · tribe · kindred · genealogy
- voedselpasta, kip, fruit, salade, sandwich
- beekeepingbeekeeping, apiculture, beehive, hive, apiary
- animal breedingbreeding, dog breeding, mating, gestation, crossbreeding
- animal younglitter, clutch, hatch, fry, spawn
- insect developmentlarva, pupa, chrysalis, cocoon, metamorphosis
- overthinkingoverthink, ruminate, obsess, dwell, fixate
broodancestor
Predecessor in lineage
forebear · predecessor · antecedent · progenitor · ancestors
- brood mareFemale horse kept for mating
- brooding heroAngsty, introspective main character
- brood parasiteSpecies using others' nests
- devil's brood
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