Crossword clues for hatchling
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1854, from hatch (v.1) + diminutive suffix -ling.
Wiktionary
n. A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg.
WordNet
n. any recently hatched animal (especially birds)
Wikipedia
In oviparious biology, a hatchling is a newly hatched fish, amphibian, reptile, or bird. A group of mammals called monotremes lay eggs, and their young are hatchlings as well.
Usage examples of "hatchling".
The Amar were uneasy, moving about constantly, talking in low short bursts, mothers stroking their infants in the birth slings that kept the unformed hatchlings tight against the skin.
He had budded into a happy family, spent his childhood in a friendly and peaceful society, lapped in the warmth of a general approval, a society filled with immutable hierarchies that tucked every hatchling and every budling into a niche it would never quite break out of no matter what it did or felt, but also a society that accepted it without reservations, that cherished it and tolerated its rebellions, its idiosyncrasies.
Ignorant of the ways of cozenage, they substitute a brute suspicion of all strangers: which, being surmounted, could leave them defenseless as hatchlings.
The hatchling was a genderless being that had no value in Disty society.
Dox had ordered the other Hatchling, a deviate named Syph, to stand guard at the top of the cliffs for a while to insure no one was on their trail.
In the summer, Daasek caught warback hatchlings with the young and infirm, or dove for mollusks in the great Myniah bay.
I came to that knowledge, for, as a hatchling, I was put to prenticeship with Rusloog who was one of the greatest swamp travelers my village knew.
He put out his hand carefully and stroked the nearest of the hatchlings, a mottled little squirmer who jumped at his touch and struck at his fingers with still-soft claws.
Tosevite male named Drucker, who was going down to Neu Strelitz to search for his mate and hatchlings?
I cannot bear my yearly hatchlings on schedule, I will lose both my status and any possibility of reappointment by my sector assembly.
I and my cousin Telyn hand fed him when he was a hatchling, and old Tew, the keeper, trained him.
Even if the last of the Bedlams is nothing but a cowardly hatchling, I still have his dam.
That was something to try when she had no new hatchlings and a chimo heavy with milk .
However, her numb right leg failed to support her and she fell face to feelers with a dozen hatchlings.
The hatchlings closest to her feet made a sickening crunching sound beneath the heel of her boot.