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hatchery
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs); "the park authorities operated a trout hatchery"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hatchery \Hatch"er*y\ (-[y^]), n. A house for hatching fish, etc.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
''For the third season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise , see "Hatchery (Star Trek: Enterprise)".'' A hatchery is a facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry . It may be used for ex-situ conservation ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, from hatch (v.1) + -ery .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A favorite method, as has been indicated, is the well-publicized promotion of game farms and fish hatcheries. ▪ Fortunately, the fish hatchery is situated between the two locations, so they can be transferred fairly quickly. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry.
Usage examples of hatchery.
I was ready to call it quits and give up on the reward and just spend the next few years enjoying a little pre-connubial bliss, she told me that I was all through going to Acme Fertilizer Company and would now be making my pick-ups at the Prime Fish Hatcheries.
Two weeks later the Scorpion Lady told me to skip the Hatchery and go back to the Acme Fertilizer Company, and Reginald attacked the elephant shit with the same enthusiasm he had attacked it a month earlier.
On arrival they found the hatchery head, Glen Wesley Gore, standing beside the lunker pool with a hurt and extremely puzzled expression on his face.
A columbarium, or hatchery of some sort, dark and reeking of decay, putrefaction and gangrene-a birthing center for monsters.
He went on to announce that there was evidence that the planet harbored its own egg-layers, too, for broken shells had been found above the high-tide line on the beach where the harbor and the fish hatchery were being constructed.
Now that they'd tasted it, they yearned to refine their focus, to know every microbe in the Cassrians' hatching pond, every denizen of the river, every disease destroying the fish hatchery, every parasite attacking the sprouting fields&mdash.
Something stirred and splashed in the metal cages, confirming Nighthawk's theory of a fish hatchery.
They landed in the waters of a fish hatchery south of Lok Ma Chau.
As the first stars began to show, I emerged from the forest onto the road near the fish hatchery where the pickup truck stood.
I'Seba Poole, runs the fish hatchery at the outlet of Lake Megunticook.
A makeshift laboratory was set up at the Pecos Fish Hatchery two miles upstream from the village to make preliminary examinations of the animals being snared in the spreading network of traps.
We've had beans for the main course three times this week already, and Calla said we're going to have to raid the poopuus' fish hatchery next.
His father often used to bring him down and watch the workmen from the state fish hatchery stock it.
Stegemeir after his pickup went off the road by the fish hatchery last year and I-I can't help remembering it.
He had taken science courses at Stanford University, had worked in a fish hatchery, and was a good friend of Ed Ricketts, a marine biologist.