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:
“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)
“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)
“The last and greatest Herald of Heaven’s King,
Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild,
Among that savage brood the woods forth bring,
Which he than man more harmless found and mild.”
—William Drummond, of Hawthornden (1585–1649)