Word Type

Verb

Noun

Adjective

The word "brood" can be used as verb, noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

abrood brood above brood cell brood chamber brood cocoon brood mare brood nest brood parasite brood parasitism brood patch brood pouch brood size brood sow brood-parasitic brooder broodfish broodless broodling broodsome broodstock broody chalkbrood foulbrood interbrood intrabrood multibrood overbrood sacbrood stonebrood

Entails

sit down

Context

mining

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

animal group care experience feel hang multiply pout procreate reproduce sulk worry

Type Of (IsA)

animal group film

Manner Of

hang reproduce worry

Related Terms

flock get issue kin litter offspring posterity progeny seed young

Related Terms

about adposition ant at length bee birds children cicada colony comb dwell egg family flock foster fowl hatch hatched insect larvae lay egg moodily mother over protect social warm wasp young

Similar Terms

breed cover hatch

Synonym Network

grizzle incubate sit on sulk

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.