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brood 
  n 
1 a number of young animals, esp. birds, produced at one hatching 
2 all the offspring in one family: often used jokingly or contemptuously 
3 a group of a particular kind; breed 
4 as modifier kept for breeding 
a brood mare  
  vb 
5  (of a bird) 
a to sit on or hatch (eggs) 
b tr to cover (young birds) protectively with the wings 
6 when intr, often foll by: on, over  or  upon to ponder morbidly or persistently 
  (Old English brod; related to Middle High German bruot, Dutch broed; see breed) 
♦  brooding  n, adj 
♦  broodingly  adv 

brood pouch 
  n 
1 a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch 
2  another name for  →  marsupium 



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