0 past simple and past participle of brood
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The eggs clump together and may adhere in a viscous mass to the adult's spines and be brooded there.
Fish that investigate this get showered in glochidia which have been brooded within the mussel's mantle cavity over the winter period.
Young chicks are brooded continuously, with the female brooding during the night and the duties being shared during the day.
Fertilisation is internal and the eggs are brooded inside the mantle for a week before emerging as free swimming nauplius larvae.
Day reportedly brooded almost continually over the end of his pitching career.
Here fertilisation takes place and the larvae are brooded for ten to fourteen days.
The hatchlings are brooded for approximately 12 to 14 days and then fledge at that time.
The eggs usually hatch in about five weeks, and are brooded by both parents.
