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词汇 brood-mare
释义 brood mare
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbruːd ˌmeər/ us /ˈbruːd ˌmer/
a female horse kept especially for breeding母种马
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Horses & similar animals
Examples from literature

He heard the neigh of the brood mare. 
I had now a new-band of horses numbering altogether nine head, but three of them were wild brood mares that had never before been in harness, and laughable was the scene that ensued at starting. 
The acreage being limited, he can only keep a certain number of horses, and, therefore, has no room for a brood mare. 
The value of cart-horse colts has risen greatly, and those who are fortunately able to maintain a brood mare have reaped the profit. 
They have no brood mares, nor any trade sufficiently valuable to supply their yearly losses, and endeavor to keep up their stock by stealing horses from the other tribes to the west and southwest. 

Examples of brood mare


brood mare
English breeders cannot keep up the standard of their products unless they are able to replenish their stock of brood mares and stallions from any profits they may make.
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There is, for example, the case of a broodmare being frightened by aeroplanes.
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It would be prefectly easy for a racehorse or broodmare going abroad to split a pastern on board.
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If on one's farm one has a broodmare or a pony turned out by day in a field, it is agricultural.
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I entirely agree with him that the whole crux of horse breeding requirements and success is to keep the brood mares at home.
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Excluding horses under four years old, brood mares, and stallions, there are 1,600,000 horses in the country which would be available.
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The exports of brood mares and stallions are of great value.
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That is the role of brood mares, not human beings.
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One good sell abroad and you can replace your yearling and possibly your brood mares.
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We propose to buy annually 200 brood mares, and we believe that will be a great help in keeping mares in the country.
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I think the giving of encouragement to the keeping of brood mares is a matter of enormous importance at the present moment.
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Before any other buyers appeared agents of the foreign buyers went round and bought and paid for the best of the brood mares.
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They included brood mares, foals, stallions, cart-horses, ponies intended for carrying deer-panniers, and all sorts of animals absolutely unsuited for military purposes.
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There are massive private sales, particularly when horses have finished their racing days and are put out to stud as brood mares or stallions.
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Their census shows the gross total of horses, excluding brood mares and stallions, and foals is 1,600,000.
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