unhatched
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈhætʃt/
:
no incubado
- The unhatched eggs were carefully placed in an incubator to ensure they would eventually hatch.
- unhatched eggs
Examples
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When I next returned on 26 January, I found that most of the nests had small chicks, but many nests still had unhatched eggs.
Academic text (2008) -
But the unhatched dragons sing for their riders, and soon six lives will be changed forever.
Blog text (5) -
This means having to conduct an image analysis of the eggs, both unhatched and hatched, in a liquid medium.
Academic text (2016) -
In a crucial scene of the movie, Nemo's mother and his unhatched siblings are eaten by a barracuda.
Academic text (2005) -
By mid-July, only two of the nine sites still had any ground above water; the river had swept away unhatched eggs and fledglings that had not yet learned to fly.
Academic text (1993) -
They were recording inside the birds' domed nests in search of anti-predator calls when they noticed that female fairy-wrens were singing to their unhatched eggs.
Blog text (27) -
She noted that the unhatched bird eggs were still viable after checking for signs of life.
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The experiment involved observing the unhatched embryos for any signs of development.
Antonyms
How Hatched
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unhatched is formed from un- meaning 'not' and hatch meaning 'to break out of an egg'. So unhatched means 'not yet emerged from the egg'.