Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bringing forth young once annually; having but one annual generation, or one brood a year, as an insect, bird, or other animal. See
silkworm .
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Examples
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There can be no further doubt that the insect is single-brooded, that it hibernates in the egg as a rule, and that this does not hatch until after the ground has been plowed and planted to corn in the spring probably in May or June.
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States the species is single-brooded; in the Southern States it is double-brooded.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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Europe that the emergence of the moths will be regular; then they will be single-brooded in Northern or Central Europe, and some will very likely become double-brooded in Southern Europe.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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The pupae although kept through the summer in a hothouse all produced typical _bryoniae_, and none of these with one exception appeared until the next year, for in the alpine and arctic regions this species is only single-brooded.
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(_Carpocapsa pomonella_), a well-known orchard pest, which in our countries is usually single-brooded.
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Here the reproductive activity is yet more economically conducted, and instead of thirty or more eggs, the bird produces often not more than six in a season, and even a smaller number if it is single-brooded, some eagles, for instance, rearing only two young in a season.
The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young Margaret Warner Morley 1890
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