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hatched

hatched

1.6
A young animal that has just come out of an egg
  • adjective
  • /hætʃt/
translation icon : nacido
  • The newly hatched chicks quickly learned to peck at the feed on the ground.

I have no idea what, but my little fat, you know, the fish fry that were just just hatched, they're dead.

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Examples

  • Castor and Pollux, the twin tricksters hatched from an egg.

  • Increased moisture supports more vegetation for newly hatched hoppers to eat, leading large groups to feed in close proximity.

  • But I know that this person's but brand new, just newly hatched photographer.

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  • The young poultry breakthrough the hatched eggs.

  • This whole hatched in area has more of one or the other or both goods, and it's the strictly weekly or strictly preferred set relative to that.

  • After the eggs hatched, the mother bird led her young into the sunlight.

  • The scientist observed the behavior of the hatched sea turtles as they made their way to the ocean.

Synonyms

to hatch
vshatched
69 1.8

To come out of an egg

is the state after an animal has emerged from an egg

How Hatched

hatched
1.6
unhatched
1 4.8

Surface Forms

hatched positive

Morphology

hatched = hatch (transparent) = hatch + ed

A regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'hatch'; learners who know 'hatch' will readily infer this meaning.

Etymology

Hatched comes from the old word hatch, which meant 'to break out of an egg', like a chick cracking its shell. So a newly hatched animal has 'emerged from an egg'.