HATCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hatched mean? 

• HATCHED (adjective)
  The adjective HATCHED has 2 senses:

1. emerged from an egg

2. shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines

  Familiarity information: HATCHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emerged from an egg

Similar:

born (brought into existence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines

Synonyms:

crosshatched; hatched

Similar:

shaded ((of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow)

 Context examples 

Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs include the largest animals ever to walk on land, but they hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

A dozen of the prisoners had hatched it before they came aboard, Prendergast was the leader, and his money was the motive power.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A fight betwixt spurred cock and new hatched chicken!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she went on sitting, and hatched them: and in a few days they crawled out, and had only a little red streak across their necks, where the tailor had sewn them together.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There were four newly hatched chicks, a day old—little specks of pulsating life no more than a mouthful; and he ate them ravenously, thrusting them alive into his mouth and crunching them like egg-shells between his teeth.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

If the young gentleman in the red tie who cried No, no, and who presumably claimed to have been hatched out of an egg, would wait upon him after the lecture, he would be glad to see such a curiosity.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Judge Scott did not know all things, and he did not know that he was party to a police conspiracy, that the evidence was hatched and perjured, that Jim Hall was guiltless of the crime charged.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It would appear that they are a half-brute, half-human species, a race apart, wherein there is no such thing as sex; that they are hatched out by the sun like turtle eggs, or receive life in some similar and sordid fashion; and that all their days they fester in brutality and viciousness, and in the end die as unlovely as they have lived.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The zones indicate the time of hatching in Rapetosaurus, and allowed the scientists to estimate the weight of the newly hatched Rapetosaurus — around 7.7 pounds.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)