HATCHERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hatchery mean? 

• HATCHERY (noun)
  The noun HATCHERY has 1 sense:

1. a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs)

  Familiarity information: HATCHERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATCHERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

the park authorities operated a trout hatchery

Hypernyms ("hatchery" is a kind of...):

place; property (any area set aside for a particular purpose)

Derivation:

hatch (emerge from the eggs)

 Context examples 

This area is hidden in visible-light views, but infrared light can travel through the dust, offering a peek inside the stellar hatchery.

(The 'Serpent' star-forming cloud hatches new stars, NASA)

While some ancient Egyptian writers made passing mention of feeding bread and plants to ibises, according to Wasef archaeologists have not yet turned up any hatchery structures.

(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)

"These microscopic haddock larvae were born in a hatchery and had never experienced life at sea, which suggests that magnetic orientation is in their DNA," said Paris, senior author of the study.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)