Definition of "brood" []

• The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time and cared for by the same mother. See Synonyms at flock1. (noun)
• The children in one family. (noun)
• To sit on or hatch (eggs). (verb-transitive)
• To protect (young) by or as if by covering with the wings. (verb-transitive)
• To sit on or hatch eggs. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Now can you tell me about a third child? hahaha I want three, hubby wants only two, but I keep trying to tell him no one even notices the third because adding to a brood is a thousand times easier than going from 0 to 1."
• "The hen with her brood is an accepted model of motherhood in this respect."
• "He was officially PLN-161697434, but the Mother/Master/Ruler who hatched his brood from the uterine replicator had called him Paln, his first moment of Pleasure."