brood parasitism English

Meaning brood parasitism meaning

What does brood parasitism mean?

brood parasitism noun

— (ornithology) The practice of laying eggs in the nest of another species (the host species) and allowing the host birds to rear the young, as practised by cowbirds, honeyguides, and most species of cuckoo.

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Simple sentences

The hen keeps her brood under her.

Movie subtitles

Brood mares.

Anna, you brood too much.

I fight one day, then brood for two.

I'm not one to brood, but you must have noticed my concern in the carriage.

I'm taking him back to Port Royal and hanging him on the. dock in chains. and there he'll dangle to brood on his crimes till he's stoned to death.

It's tragic, but you mustn't let yourself brood over it.

My brood's scattered.

But it's insane to brood for 3 years.

I got a strong brood odor, like in the New Mexico nest!

I see you got two more peeps to your brood.

What is it when you brood about him?

Don't brood.

Don't brood like that. It's not like you're. I've had it.

You must have quite a brood of girls back home.

Get lost, devil's brood!

The wild pigeons that brood among the steep cliffs have lost all shyness against us.

Ours had to be a brood of lily-Livered titmice.

Sit down. The alcohol is starting to ramble, and the result is the secret brood or the huckleberry hooch.

Oh, the brood.

It's a lovely brood.

A place to raise their little brood, eh? Well, I suppose, in time. Of course!

Look, you have no right to brood, Harry.

You brood on your illness, but it's just an illness, like any other.

Brood on it, will you. Brood on it.

Oh, Herman. You're so forceful, and you're such a marvelous husband and father to your little brood.

Harry. I'm not one to brood, but you must have noticed my concern in the carriage.

Place to raise their little brood, eh?

She's gone away somewhere to brood.

You think every woman is just another brood hen, don't you?

He's put the brood in his shirt.

We all brood over problems that are in the head.

Don 't brood!

I brood, but if you notice, it's not always about money.

It isn't good for you to sit out there alone and brood so much!

ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY) this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Wants me to see one of his brood mares then asked if I'd bring Roly Partridge.

The entire brood, and Mr Dimmock.

News and current affairs

The Council included the surviving royal princes of the 43 sons of Ibn Saud, the Kingdom's founder, and the sons of their deceased brothers - for example, the late King Faisal's brood.