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broodstock en · NOUN

Etymology

From brood + stock.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A group of sexually mature individuals of a cultured species that is kept separate for breeding purposes.
    • So the spermatogonia of an endangered species could be kept preserved and used to produce male and female broodstock to help rebuild populations. 2007 September 18, Henry Fountain, “A New Hope for Endangered Fish: Surrogate Breeding”, in New York Times:

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Translations (3)

fi emokalasto (group of mature fish kept for breeding) · fi emokalakanta (group of mature fish kept for breeding) · ota مایه (group of mature fish kept for breeding)