brood
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Varroa mites must enter brood cells to reproduce, so the team tested whether mites were equally attracted to larvae from different types of colonies.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 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
They also continued raising brood throughout the entire study period.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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