brood
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These bees wait until A. regularis females have prepared brood cells underground before laying their own eggs inside them.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
Then there was his promise to build her a dance studio on their massive estate; he turned it into a schoolhouse for their growing brood of children.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
The actor noted that the family had embraced an abundance of wildlife on the ranch, and added pigs, chickens, horses, dogs, and cats to their brood.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026
Conditions were far more severe near the edges of the brood.
From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026
My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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