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  • 71brood canal — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Stylopidea, the passage between the female parasite and its puparium; a brood chamber …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 72brood chamber — 1. (ARTHROPODA: Crustacea) a. In Cladocera, a dorsal space between the trunk and enveloping carapace containing developing eggs and newly hatched young. b. In Peracarida, a space arising from the coxae of the thoracic limbs, forming a marsupium… …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 73brood pouch — Any space or sac like cavity utilized as a uterus, in which eggs or embryos are developed; a brood chamber, ovisac or marsupium …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 74brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism. * * * …

    Universalium

  • 75brood hen — noun a domestic hen ready to brood • Syn: ↑broody, ↑broody hen, ↑setting hen, ↑sitter • Hypernyms: ↑hen, ↑biddy …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 76brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism …

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  • 77brood — A group of young produced at a time; see also cohort …

    Fisheries — dictionary

  • 78brood — 1) a group of fish spawned at the same time 2) a collective noun (a noun that denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit) for dogfish 3) a race, a kind …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 79brood — n. [A.S. brod] The individuals hatched at the same time from eggs by a single parent and normally mature at about the same time …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 80brood — Synonyms and related words: agonize, animal kingdom, be abstracted, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, blood, breed, carry, carry young, chew the cud, children, clan, class, clock, clutch, consider, contemplate, cover, debate,… …

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