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Embryos are brooded in the mother's carapace and hatch out as miniature Daphnia, rather than as nauplii.
The chicks are virtually naked when they hatch and must be brooded on the parents' feet for about 50 days.
Then he brooded more about footslogging through the mud, about the rats and lice, than the history he was making.
Fertilized eggs may be brooded for a time or may develop directly into a free-swimming, ciliated planula larva.
Incubation lasts 10 to 15 days and the altricial chicks are brooded for about 5 to 6 days after hatching.
I brooded about it for days afterward, and even followed up that encounter with a one-nighter with one of the participants.
Cast into the political wilderness, he grew a beard and brooded upon his fate.
After hatching, the altricial nestlings are brooded for 1 to 2 weeks depending on the weather.
She muttered inaudibly, miserable for the rest of the day as she brooded on that dark piece of information.
Privately he was so upset that he had to take to his bed, where he brooded over possible courses of action.
Bradley was a man who worried deeply and brooded over the lives lost among his commands.
He brooded endlessly on oil spills, DDT, eagles that laid thin-shelled eggs, spruce-budworm spray programs, vinyl chloride, asbestos.
Mr Okruashvili brooded silently for months before producing lurid allegations against his former boss.
Chicks are not fed by their parents at all but are periodically brooded, or kept warm by a parent, during their first week.
For the first few days, the chicks are brooded often to protect them from the sun or from the cold and wet.
Young chicks are brooded for an unknown period of time after hatching.
During those pretty awful weeks that followed my last cigarette, I brooded considerably about why I had taken that first step as a teenager.
A section reserved for brooded egg production housing 2 reproduction buildings.
Flight Season: Single brooded, Dorcas Coppers appear in some localities in late June and can be on the wing until late August.
On 6 June a nest with 3 eggs was being brooded and another nest contained one egg, the latter ultimately also contained 3 eggs.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Alone, the Sphinx, linking timelessness with time, brooded unguessed and underived upon an alien world.
The moon brooded upon the lulled waves, and quested among the ridges of driftwood for pearly shells.
I have brooded on that subject so long, that every breath of suspicion carries me back to it.
Now it did not slumber, but it brooded, like the mist that had so lately left the sea.
He had brooded upon it, and this outburst and the letter he had written were the consequences.
Before priority and posteriority, time, which did not yet exist, brooded within existence itself.
Not a twitter nor cheep from the hen-house broke the quiet that brooded over everything.
Schiller brooded gloomily over the constraints and hardships of his situation.
She has brooded over these things until she has become morbid and imbittered.
It was a squalid sight, though the festive season of the year and that glamourous air peculiar to Indiana brooded it.
This afternoon it brooded motionless, an image of forest reflection.
It was the loveliest evening that brooded round us as we walked.
But I am so alone, and I have brooded over my troubles so much.
Grose in a relation over which, on my way, in the coach, I fear I had rather brooded.
It brooded upon the revanche, the return match with Prussia.
He brooded profoundly, after the manner of crafty and unintelligent men.
Over everything brooded the after-dinner peace of Christmas afternoon.
She brooded over the problem with dreamful lips and half-shut eyes.
He dragged himself upstairs, and brooded in his room a long time, disconsolate and forlorn, with Luigi's Indian knife for a text.
The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boys.
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