HATCHLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hatchling mean? 

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

1. any recently hatched animal (especially birds)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATCHLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any recently hatched animal (especially birds)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

offspring; young (any immature animal)

 Context examples 

Hatchlings listen to the sounds of coastal ecosystems to guide them to sheltered waters.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)

Plastic is not the natural food of the wax worm, but researchers say that since they lay their eggs in beehives, the hatchlings feed on beeswax.

(Plastic Eating Worm Could Help Ease Pollution, VOA)

Native fish hatchlings will find it more difficult to use sound to reach secure shelters in the oceans of the future that are acidified by carbon dioxide (CO2), threatening fish populations.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)