hatcher
See also: Hatcher
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
hatcher (plural hatchers)
- One who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.
- I bought some chicks from a commercial hatcher.
- One who hatches, such as a bird in the egg.
- Incubators must be carefully monitored so that hatchers and nonhatchers may both be further handled promptly.
- 1989, Bart Thomas De Stasio, Dormancy and egg banks of freshwater zooplankton: structure and dynamics:
- 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 […]
Synonyms edit
- (intransitive): hatchling
Hyponyms edit
- (transitive): poulterer
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Translations edit
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