Brood

Brood may refer to:

  • Brood, a collective term for offspring
  • Brooding, the incubation of bird eggs by their parents
  • Brood (honeybee), the young of a beehive
  • Brood: to think deeply about something, often in a dark or melancholy manner.
  • The Brood, a 1979 horror film directed by David Cronenberg
  • Brood (comics), an alien species from the Marvel Comics universe
  • The Brood, and The New Brood, WWE professional wrestling stables in 1999
  • Brood, The, as in Chris Martens
  • The Brood (band), a crossover thrash band from Venice, California
  • The Brood (album), a 1984 album by Herman Brood
  • The Brood, episode 11 of the first season of Exosquad
  • Elliott Brood, a death country band from Toronto
  • Brood, the dragon clan in Breath of Fire III
  • Individual broods of North American periodical cicadas:
    • Brood X, the largest brood, which emerges on a 17-year cycle
    • Brood XIII, a brood centered on Northern Illinois and its surrounding area, which also emerges on a 17-year cycle.
    • Brood XIX, a large brood in the Southern United States which emerges on a 13-year cycle
  • Brod (disambiguation), a Slavic toponym
  • People
    • Herman Brood (1946-2001), Dutch musician, painter, actor, poet and media personality
    • Philippe Brood (1964-2000), Dutch politician

Famous quotes containing the word brood:

    “I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden’s roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world’s first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.”
    —Alexander Smith (1830–1867)