单词 | brood-chamber |
释义 | > as lemmasbrood-chamber brood-chamber n. (a) a chamber for holding the eggs or brood of an animal, etc.; (b) a chamber folded off from the uterus and closed around the embryo in some species of Peripatus ( Cent. Dict. Suppl.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > incubator or brooder furnacec1400 brood-oven1737 eccaleobion1839 hatcher1856 incubator1857 brooder1880 brood-chamber1888 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Onychophora > [noun] > class Protracheata > genus Peripatus > chamber round embryo brood-chamber1888 1888 [see brood box n.]. 1914 P. Geddes Sex iv. 90 A unique shell..which is used as a brood-chamber for the developing ova. < as lemmas |
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