Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A newly hatched animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very young fish, usually artificially hatched and not old enough to take care of itself.
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- noun A newly
hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from anegg .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any recently hatched animal (especially birds)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The hatchling was the culmination of three years of effort by zookeepers watching over every step of its parents 'courtship and mating to make sure everything went as planned, said Tay.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010
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Originally identified as a hatchling dinosaur, the fossils were recognized to include a snake by dinosaur paleontologist Jeff Wilson from the University of Michigan and Mohabey in 2001.
Scientific Blogging News Account 2010
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The hatchling was the culmination of three years of effort by zookeepers watching over every step of its parents 'courtship and mating to make sure everything went as planned, said Tay.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010
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IOW, snakes don't give birth to mammals, even if an occasional hatchling has seriously deformed scales.
Crossroads 2009
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Though I doubted Raziel would enjoy being seen as a fuzzy hatchling.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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But the image of a nude Daenerys, sitting amid the ashes of Khal Drogo's funeral pyre as her three hatchling dragons emerge around their queen, didn't disappoint.
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"While you're a hatchling and growing over the first five to 10 years, you're just being swept along the south Atlantic," said Matthew Witt, of the University of Exeter.
Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters 2011
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But sometimes, just like that helpless hatchling struggling for survival, in order to truly help, we need to step away, let it go, and watch that birdling fly.
Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It Layla Revis 2011
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Most of the action takes place beneath the surface of Mars, where hatchling kiddies are raised by nannybots in an elaborately technological setting that owes much of its retro esthetic to Terry Gilliam.
See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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But the image of a nude Daenerys, sitting amid the ashes of Khal Drogo's funeral pyre as her three hatchling dragons emerge around their queen, didn't disappoint.
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