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brooder
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun brooder has 1 sense
- brooder(n = noun.artifact) incubator - apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants; Array is a kind of apparatus, setup
has parts: thermoregulator, thermostat
Derived form verb brood5
CIDE DICTIONARY
brooder, n.
a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
brooder
Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, birthplace, breeding place, broiler, broody hen, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicken house, chicky, cock, cockerel, coop, cradle, depressive, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, forcing bed, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gloomy Gus, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hatchery, hen, hen turkey, hencote, henhouse, hennery, hotbed, incubator, melancholiac, melancholic, mope, nest, nidus, nursery, partlet, poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, roaster, rookery, rooster, setting hen, sourpuss, spring chicken, stewing chicken, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock
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