brood patchn.

Brit.

/ˈbruːd patʃ/, U.S.

/ˈbrud ˌpætʃ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: brood n., patch n.¹

Etymology: < brood n. + patch n.¹

1. Bee-keeping. A group of brood cells in a honeycomb (see brood-cell n. (a) at brood n. Compounds 2).

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1879 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 1 June 23/2 Take care also that the brood-patch is not of larger area than that in the centre of the recipients' brood-nest.

1888 F. R. Cheshire Bees & Bee-keeping II. iv. 123 She, moving round and round in a spiral upon the cell first furnished, enlarges her brood patch.

1904 Jrnl. Dept. Agric. & Tech. Instr. Ireland 4 722 In the cells constituting this brood patch there will be found small grubs or larvæ.

1991 Ecology 72 163/1 The cluster of bees was drawn up so that only the brood patch in the middle of the comb was covered.

2010 D. F. Westneat & C. W. Fox Evolutionary Behavioral Ecol. xxviii. 494 The heating of brood patches to combat chalkbrood, a bacterial pathogen in honeybees.

2. An area of bare, flaccid skin containing numerous blood vessels which is present on the underside of certain birds during the nesting season and is used to transfer heat to the eggs during incubation.In species where both parents incubate the eggs, brood patches may develop in both sexes. Brood parasitic birds and those which incubate eggs cradled on their feet do not develop brood patches.

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1908 Country Life 11 July 52 (caption) Approaching nest—lowering brood patch.

1954 Wilson Bull. 66 50 Heed shot a singing male in open pine-oak country south of camp June 4 (testes enlarged, brood patch present, no fat).

1991 Times 18 Mar. 12/7 One can see on the underside of her body the red brood-patches with which she will warm the eggs.

2007 J. L. Gould & C. G. Gould Animal Architects vi. 162 A ‘brood patch’ of highly vascularized skin.

3. An area of specialized skin on the underside of males of certain syngnathid fishes, esp. pipefishes and sea dragons, onto which the female deposits eggs. Cf. brood-pouch n. at brood n. Compounds 1.

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1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 147/1 In certain primitive pipefishes the term ‘brood patch’ rather than brood pouch would be more accurate.

1995 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 12 Feb. The eggs are fertilised by the males and take six to eight weeks to incubate on the brood patch.

2013 D. J. Fairbairn Odd Couples ii. 16 Fish paternal care reaches its extreme in seahorses and pipefishes, many of which have a male abdominal brood patch or pouch where the eggs are deposited and nurtured until they hatch.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	brood patch
释义	brood patchn. Brit. /ˈbruːd patʃ/, U.S. /ˈbrud ˌpætʃ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: brood n., patch n.¹ Etymology: < brood n. + patch n.¹ 1. Bee-keeping. A group of brood cells in a honeycomb (see brood-cell n. (a) at brood n. Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1879 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 1 June 23/2 Take care also that the brood-patch is not of larger area than that in the centre of the recipients' brood-nest. 1888 F. R. Cheshire Bees & Bee-keeping II. iv. 123 She, moving round and round in a spiral upon the cell first furnished, enlarges her brood patch. 1904 Jrnl. Dept. Agric. & Tech. Instr. Ireland 4 722 In the cells constituting this brood patch there will be found small grubs or larvæ. 1991 Ecology 72 163/1 The cluster of bees was drawn up so that only the brood patch in the middle of the comb was covered. 2010 D. F. Westneat & C. W. Fox Evolutionary Behavioral Ecol. xxviii. 494 The heating of brood patches to combat chalkbrood, a bacterial pathogen in honeybees. 2. An area of bare, flaccid skin containing numerous blood vessels which is present on the underside of certain birds during the nesting season and is used to transfer heat to the eggs during incubation.In species where both parents incubate the eggs, brood patches may develop in both sexes. Brood parasitic birds and those which incubate eggs cradled on their feet do not develop brood patches. ΚΠ 1908 Country Life 11 July 52 (caption) Approaching nest—lowering brood patch. 1954 Wilson Bull. 66 50 Heed shot a singing male in open pine-oak country south of camp June 4 (testes enlarged, brood patch present, no fat). 1991 Times 18 Mar. 12/7 One can see on the underside of her body the red brood-patches with which she will warm the eggs. 2007 J. L. Gould & C. G. Gould Animal Architects vi. 162 A ‘brood patch’ of highly vascularized skin. 3. An area of specialized skin on the underside of males of certain syngnathid fishes, esp. pipefishes and sea dragons, onto which the female deposits eggs. Cf. brood-pouch n. at brood n. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 147/1 In certain primitive pipefishes the term ‘brood patch’ rather than brood pouch would be more accurate. 1995 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 12 Feb. The eggs are fertilised by the males and take six to eight weeks to incubate on the brood patch. 2013 D. J. Fairbairn Odd Couples ii. 16 Fish paternal care reaches its extreme in seahorses and pipefishes, many of which have a male abdominal brood patch or pouch where the eggs are deposited and nurtured until they hatch. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1879
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