1 to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry: --
2 a group of young birds all born at the same time, or infml a person’s children: --
infml I moved in with Annie and her brood.
3 to think silently for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry: --
He brooded over the insult.
We therefore recorded a brood's location and altitude as at the nearest intersection of a 100 m grid.
Also, broods moved around such that ' location ' and ' altitude ' were approximations only of where chicks picked up ticks.
There is always a certain number of resting larvae (2 to 12 per cent.) throughout the summer in otherwise active broods.
In the other broods either all the larvae developed actively or 1 to 3 larvae remained hibernating.
The average duration of development calculated for all broods was 51 -5 days, considerably longer than in summer (36 to 40 days).
In such broods larvae are found whose development is arrested over a relatively long period.
He brooded over what he had written before submitting it for publication.
Locations where broods were caught were an approximate indication only of where chicks might have picked up their ticks.
