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Meaning of "brood hen" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BROOD HEN

brood hen  [bruːd hen] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BROOD HEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Brood hen is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BROOD HEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of brood hen in the English dictionary

The definition of brood hen in the dictionary is a hen kept for breeding.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BROOD HEN


peahen
ˈpiːhen

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BROOD HEN

broo
brooch
brood
brood mare
brood pouch
brooder
broodier
broodiest
broodily
broodiness
brooding
broodingly
broodless
broody
brook
Brook Farm
brook lamprey
brook trout
brookable

WORDS THAT END LIKE BROOD HEN

Aachen
battery hen
Cohen
fat hen
fully-fitted kitchen
guinea hen
heath hen
hen
kitchen
kuchen
marsh hen
mother hen
mud hen
prairie hen
Stephen
strengthen
the heathen
then
water hen
when

Synonyms and antonyms of brood hen in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «brood hen» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BROOD HEN

Find out the translation of brood hen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of brood hen from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «brood hen» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一窝母鸡
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gallina de cría
570 millions of speakers

English

brood hen
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बच्चे मुर्गी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدجاجة الحضنة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наседкой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

galinha de cria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ব্রোড মুরগি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Poule Couveuse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ayam brood
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bruthenne
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ひな編
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

골똘히 암탉
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Brood hen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gà bố mẹ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடைகாக்கும் கோழி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मादी कोंबडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yavru tavuk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gallina covata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hen brood
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

квочкою
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

găină puiet
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κότα τσούρμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

brood hen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avels höna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stamfisk høne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of brood hen

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BROOD HEN»

The term «brood hen» is used very little and occupies the 186.013 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BROOD HEN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about brood hen

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BROOD HEN»

Discover the use of brood hen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to brood hen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences
3b: designation of a hen that is inclined to incubate eggs, sealed brood, the pupae of bees, unsealed brood, the eggs of bees. brood cow. a cow used lor breeding purposes. brood hen. a domestic fowl that is inclined to brood eggs. brood hen.
Robert Alan Lewis, 2001
2
Fall and Winter Turkey Hunter's Handbook
Fall and winter calling includes the brood hen's assembly yelp, along with the juvenile turkeys' kee-kee and kee-kee-run. The assembly yelp: This turkey call is a variation on the plain, lost, and tree yelp, which I'll detail shortly. It's made by the  ...
Steve Hickoff, 2007
3
The Hemshin: History, Society and Identity in the Highlands ...
A lexical feature that is unique to Homshetsma and Trabzon in the Armenian world is the form mo- 'brood hen' (corresponding to Std. †owxs [thus]). This root is shown (Table 10.11). Uwe Bläsing relates these to forms found in the neighbouring ...
Hovann Simonian, 2007
4
Greater Sage-grouse Response to Coal-bed Natural Gas ...
Brood survival was classified as unknown if the brood hen could not be followed for the full 35-d period or if the brood hen was found in a flock with other adults and juveniles prior to 35 d post- hatch. We considered a brood to have failed if the ...
Brett Lincoln Walker, 2008
5
Armenian Loanwords in Turkish
ljnLL kul AB 11,654-66 "swallowing" Erzurum 2, 147: ğullut "swallowing / yutma; miğdeye indirme" ljluljUlp kukar: See s.v. q.nq.iun. gogar 397. ljnLn.p> kurt' GB 606 (Adapazarı, İzmit, Harput, Geyve, Maskert, Çemişgezek, Kiği) "brood-hen" DS ...
Robert Dankoff, 1995
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Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages
As 9. rule there is no r in the Kan forms, whereas in the La: correspondence the vowel o is usually combined with it. It has been assumed that the stem is of nominal origin (cf. Ciicobava was: ass). ||Cf. Esme; us. GZ *l_i.roit— 'brood hen': Georg.
Georgij A. Klimov, 1998
7
Computerworld
June 26: Brood hen. She hatched all 10 eggs! July 2: Brood hen observed with six ducklings. Ducks Unlimited uses EnterpriseWeb from Beyond Software, Inc. in San Jose, Calif., to set up Web pages. Enterprise- Web was designed to allow ...
8
Adaptive Strategies and Population Ecology of Northern ...
It is interesting that brood (hen) defense reactions were not observed on male concentration areas such as TM where brood hen and chick calls were common, daily events. 8.9 Summary Studies of the breeding behavior of white-tailed ...
A. T. Bergerud, Michael W. Gratson, 1988
9
Tales of My Landlord: ¬The bride of Lammermoor ; p. 1
“But the auld brood -hen ?— she'll be as teugh as bow-strings and bend-leather.” “Say ye made a mistake — say ye made a mistake, Mysic,” replied the faithful seneschal, in a soothing and undertoned voice; ,,tah it a' on yoursel; never let the  ...
Walter Scott, 1823
10
Waverley Novels: Bride of Lammermoor ; [1]
Just mak the best o't, mak the best o't, woman; it's easy to put a fair face on ony thing." “ But the auld brood-hen ?—she'll be as teugh as bow-strings and bend- leather!" “ Say ye made a mistake—say ye made a mistake, Mysie," replied the ...
Walter Scott, 1831

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BROOD HEN»

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Mothers Groups help support families, communities
A brood hen sat on a nest off to one side of the village center, clucking quietly to her chicks, a pony grazed contentedly in a patch of grass while ... «The Catholic Key, Jun 14»
2
Berthold Beitz
“Years ago, my grandparents used a brood hen to hatch duck eggs,” he recalled. “She viewed them as her own. But then they started to swim ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»
3
Turkey hens sitting nests full of Alabama population's future promise
In the first instance, the trend suggests that three-plus poults per brood hen are recruited into the fall flock here. Including hens without poults, ... «al.com, May 13»
4
Alabama turkey season holds promise for early success
That's a good average per brood hen, Barnett said, but the problem is that there are also hens that raised no poults to adulthood. Those hens ... «The Huntsville Times - al.com, Mar 13»
5
Freshwater snail soup that's fit for a son-in-law
... up some Korean chicken soup for them when they visited - following a tradition that calls for cooking a brood hen to show love and affection. «JoongAng Daily, Jul 09»

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