nageslacht — meaning in English

English meaning

• brood noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
• offspring noun A person's child, or an animal's or plant's young.
• posterity noun Future generations, especially someone's descendants.

Senses

nageslacht is used for these senses in English:

• brood The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
• brood (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
• offspring An animal or plant's progeny or young.
• posterity All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.

brood — full definition

1. noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
2. noun Informal term for the children of one family.
3. verb Of a bird, to sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.
4. verb To dwell unhappily on one's thoughts, often alone.

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