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hatcher en · NOUN

Etymology

From hatch + -er.

Meanings

1. One who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.
   • I bought some chicks from a commercial hatcher.
2. Something that hatches, such as a bird or the egg from which it hatches.
   • Incubators must be carefully monitored so that hatchers and nonhatchers may both be further handled promptly.
   • Under these conditions the late-hatching strategy quickly went extinct, usually within 10 years. With no difference in survivorship between hatching early and late, the early hatchers that survive each produce 20 offspring […] 1989, Bart Thomas De Stasio, Dormancy and egg banks of freshwater zooplankton: structure and dynamics:

Forms

Relateds

hatchery

Synonyms

hatchling

Translations (1)

bg квачка (hatchling)