hatcher

See also: Hatcher

English

From hatch +‎ -er.

hatcher (plural hatchers)

One who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.
Hyponym: poulterer

I bought some chicks from a commercial hatcher.
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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