brood
91brood fish — sexually mature fish, especially those used in aquaculture …
92brood hider — an ecological group of reproductive guilds (q.v.) where fish hide their eggs but ds not care for them …
93brood pond — a pond in which breeders are held before spawning …
94brood stock — broodstock …
95brood year — the year in which the eggs were fertilised and spawned. In some species, e.g. Salmonidae, the eggs overwinter so the eggs hatch in the following year …
96brood capsule — (PLATYHELMINTHES: Cestoda) A small hydatid cyst containing 10 to 30 protoscolices; parasites of carnivores …
97brood bitch — a female dog used for breeding. * * * …
98brood bud — Bot. 1. bulbil. 2. soredium. 3. gemma. * * * …
99brood parasitism — a form of social parasitism practiced by certain birds, as cuckoos and cowbirds, in which eggs are laid in the nests of other birds, causing them to be hatched and the young reared by the hosts, often at the cost of the hosts own young. * * * …
100brood patch. — See incubation patch. * * * …