hatchery
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhæt͡ʃəɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
hatchery (plural hatcheries)
- A facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 57:
- Next door is a trout hatchery, open to the public every day during the summer.
- 2007, J. Dennis Lord, “Poultry”, in edited by John T. Edge, Foodways (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; 7), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 93:
- The poultry industry is characterized by a vertical integration in which an agribusiness firm, either through direct ownership or contract, controls the entire production process. Such firms own processing plants, feed mills, and hatcheries, and contract with farmers to raise the chickens.
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Translations
a facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions
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References
- “hatchery”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.