hatcher

See also: Hatcher

English

Etymology

From hatch +‎ -er.

Noun

hatcher (plural hatchers)

1. One who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.

   Hyponym: poulterer

   I bought some chicks from a commercial hatcher.

2. Something that hatches, such as a bird or the egg from which it hatches.

   Synonym: hatchling (bird)

   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 […]

Related terms

• hatchery

Translations

hatchling

• Bulgarian: квачка f (kvačka)

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