hatcher
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
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
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]hatchling
|