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)

    “This much, O heaven—if I should brood or rave,
    Pity me not; but let the world be fed,
    Yea, in my madness if I strike me dead,”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    ““You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit worthy of repentance.””
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 3:7-8.