hatcher

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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 []

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