noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
babe/chick magnet informal (= a man who is attractive to women )
chick flick
chick lit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
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Very occasionally the young cuckoo fails to remove its host's eggs and the young cuckoo and chicks are reared together.
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The best evidence for this is that young stray chicks are often adopted by birds that are not their parents.
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As well as looking like their host's young , the chicks of some brood parasites also sound like them.
■ NOUN
embryo
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When researchers tried to mimic the results on other animals, such as chick embryos , it did not have the same effect.
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The chick embryo proper comes from a very small region resting on the yolk and which is equivalent to the mammalian egg.
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She noticed that the nuclei of the cells of the quail embryo looked slightly different from those of the chick embryo.
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Because transplanted quail cells will behave normally in chick embryos , she realized she had an invaluable natural marker.
pea
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If you can't get chick peas , the same sort of salad can be made with haricot beans.
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Drain and rinse the chick peas and kidney beans and combine with other beans. 3.
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Add the rice, cooked chick peas , herbs, salt and pepper to the onion mixture.
■ VERB
feed
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The sky had darkened, clouds had gathered, and birds were returning, flying in belatedly to feed their chicks .
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After they are separated, the keepers feed the chicks by hand and must teach them to swallow whole fish.
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Guillemots and razor bills whirred rapidly out to sea, surface-dived for fish, and whirred back again to feed hungry chicks .
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They too are going to nest and they will rely on puffin meat to feed their chicks .
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A tiny reed warbler, faced with a cuckoo, feeds a chick much larger than herself.
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The parents then feed the chick for up to a year.
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Pairs breeding along acidic streams laid their eggs slightly later, laid fewer, lighter eggs and fed their chicks less often.
rear
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A female that pairs monogamously with a male will get some help from him with rearing the chicks .
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The cattle egrets hatched and reared two chicks and the white-faced tree ducks also two.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Who is he talking to?" "Some chick named Melanie."
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a hen and her chicks
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If the eggs are allowed to cool, once they have started to develop, the chicks within will die.
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It must time the laying of its eggs so that its chicks hatch when caterpillars are most abundant, and most palatable.
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Once he put a broody hen on a clutch of eggs and ten little chicks hatched out.
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The chicks all scurry to shelter; but if the same models are drawn backward, they do not.
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The chicks need round the clock attention, and have developed very healthy appetites.
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The turkey and black vultures at the park are well-fed and then scared into bringing up their food to supply the chicks.
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Two other tame birds on the same farm have already produced chicks which are now living in this barn.