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hatchery

hatchery

11 4.5
A place where people hatch eggs, often for fish or chickens
  • noun
  • /ˈhæʧəri/
  • Specialized
: criadero
  • Originally, the purpose of these federal and state-supported hatcheries was to hatch lobster eggs artificially.
  • lobster hatchery
  • hatchery release
  • hatchery stock

We don't have spurs, so, so they'll they'll have those at the hatchery, they'll have them nip and so we really don't get messed up.

Examples

  • Local observers believe that once Ecuadorean farmers learn how to handle hatchery-produced larvae, major production increases are possible.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Currently, there is only one salmon hatchery in the province whose capacity is about 200,000 smolts.

    Academic text (1990)

  • I came here to grow fish in my hatchery.

    Bloodsport (1988)

  • It was a fish hatchery before the army took it over.

    Piranha (1978)

  • The processing facility makes Sea Farm totally integrated, with a hatchery, marine farm, and processing.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Smolts will be ferried from the hatchery to some 120 farms by helicopter.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The ready supply of smolts from private hatcheries is important for future growth in Canada's salmon farming.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Supplies of shrimp are obtained from government hatcheries, about 1,500 family-owned backyard hatchery operations, and large-scale agro-industrial concerns.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Ponds are stocked from Aquastar's shrimp hatchery, which obtains brood stock from the Andaman Sea.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The local fish hatchery successfully incubated thousands of eggs this spring.

Surface Forms

hatchery singular
hatcheries plural

Morphology

hatchery = hatch (transparent) = hatch + ery

The noun is formed by adding the productive suffix '-ery' to 'hatch' to denote a place or collective associated with hatching.

Etymology

Hatchery comes from the verb hatch, meaning 'to break out of an egg', plus the ending -ery, which makes a place like in bakery or brewery. So a hatchery is a place where eggs are kept until they hatch.