English edit

Etymology edit

post- +‎ hatchling

Noun edit

posthatchling (plural posthatchlings)

  1. A young animal that is no longer a hatchling
    • 2015 December 3, “Size Scaling in Western North Atlantic Loggerhead Turtles Permits Extrapolation between Regions, but Not Life Stages”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      In the posthatchling group, there was almost three times as much data for the ‘south’ than for the ‘north’ subset, so data from the ‘south’ were censored (randomly selected 1300 triplets) to match the number of data triplets of the ‘north’ subset.