brood
noun / adjective / verb
Meaning
- nounThe young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- adjectiveKept or reared for breeding.
Example:
brood ducks
- verbTo keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
Example:
In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,354 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 15% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: o