WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
brood′ par′asitism,
- Animal Behaviora form of social parasitism practiced by certain birds, as cuckoos and cowbirds, in which eggs are laid in the nests of other birds, causing them to be hatched and the young reared by the hosts, often at the cost of the hosts' own young.
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