verb
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To close with a hatch or hatches.
verb
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(of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
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(of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
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To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
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To devise.
verb
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To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
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To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
Examples of hatched in a Sentence
The young when hatched are naked and helpless.
The duck, on the other hand, when newly hatched, and for nearly a month after, has the sternum wholly cartilaginous.
The larva is, hatched two or FIG.
By and by, the eggs hatched, and a nestful of young doves grew up.
Similarly the newly-hatched larva of an oil-beetle (Meloe) is an active little campodeiform insect, which, hatched from an egg laid among plants, waits to attach itself to a passing bee.
The grubs, when hatched, start galleries nearly at right angles to this, and when fully grown form oval cells in which they pupate; from these the young beetles emerge by making circular holes directly outward through the bark.
This was in its origin a Polish nationalist movement, hatched in the little independent republic of Cracow.
Egypt before the Deltaic dynasties, but Diodorus in the first century B.C. describes how its eggs were hatched artificially, as they are at the present day.
The young, which are hatched after about four weeks' incubation, look very different from the adult.
The young are hatched clothed in variegated down, and remain in the nest for some time.
Alcock (1901) describes from his own observation the newly hatched Phyllosoma larva of Thenus orientalis, Fabricius.
That certain species, particularly many from deep water, have disproportionately large eggs, is explained by the supposition that the young derive the advantage of being hatched in an advanced stage of development.
After the eggs have hatched, they change color; at that point, they will take on a grayish tone.
Certainly no plot was laid by James to entrap the Ruthvens, and the only question is, was the brawl in which they fell accidental, or had a plot hatched in deep secrecy been frustrated by unexpected circumstances?
The dead body of the mother insect serves as a protection for the eggs until they are hatched.
In fresh-water culture the eggs thus fertilized may be at once distributed to the waters to be stocked, or they may be kept in special receptacles provided with a suitable stream of water until the fry are hatched, and then distributed, or again they may be reared in the hatchery for several months until the fry are active and hardy.
The plaice fry hatched in the Scottish establishment have been distributed for many years in the waters of Loch Fyne.
The young soon after they are hatched become a perfect mass of fat, and while yet in the nest are sought by the Indians, who at Caripe, and perhaps elsewhere, make a special business of taking them and extracting the oil they contain.
The majority of the Crustacea are hatched from the egg in a form differing more or less from that of the adult, and pass through a series of free-swimming larval stages.
As compared with the majority of Acari, ticks are of large size, distended female specimens of some of the species measuring half an inch or more in length, while even the newly hatched young can hardly be regarded as microscopical.
It is an interesting and important fact that the newly hatched young of certain species, Margaropus annulatus for instance, before it has fed, if produced by a female carrying the germs of spirillosis, can infect healthy organisms with the disease.
Under the auspices of this rancorous princess the second conspiracy was hatched in the following year (1487).
This horrible outrage naturally created indignation in France, and it unfortunately became plain that the conspiracy had been hatched in England, and that the bombs had been manufactured in Birmingham.
Nothing seems to be lost, nor can any part of the bee's work be accounted labour in vain; the very wax from which the insect builds the store-combs for its food and the cells in which its young are hatched and reared is valuable to mankind in many ways, and is regarded to-day no less than in the past ages as an important commercial product.
On the other hand, worker-bees hatched in the autumn will seven months later be strong with the vigour of lusty youth; able to take their full share in the labour of the hive for six weeks or more in the early spring, which is the most critical period in the colony's existence; hence the value to the apiarist of bees hatched in the autumn.
Some of the apterous young that are hatched from these form fresh galls and continue to multiply in the leaves, others descend to the root of the plant, becoming what are known as root-forms. These, like the parent form of spring, reproduce parthenogenetically, giving rise to generation after generation of egg-laying individuals.
In the course of the summer, from some of these eggs are hatched females which acquire wings and lay eggs from which wingless males and females are born.
From the union of the sexes comes the fertile egg from which the parent form of spring is hatched.
At the end of 1966, the twins hatched a plot to free Frank Mitchell, the mad axeman.
A extremely rare albino African penguin chick, which hatched at Bristol zoo in November 2002, has died.
Newly hatched stick insects eat bramble leaves just like the adults.
These can be easily raised in newly hatched brine shrimp, powdered flake, and small daphnia and other pond foods.
You can watch the birds cozy up with their eggs or coddle their newly hatched chicks.
As the newly hatched baby cuckoo pokes it way out of its shell, it pushes the other eggs out of their rightful nest.
Newly hatched cuttlefish Newly hatched cuttlefish (1cm) will often change color to match the eggs they have hatched from.
Last year they hatched three cygnets, unfortunately only one survived to date.
A scheme is hatched to kidnap the girl and demand a ransom from her rich daddy.
A baby dinosaur, just hatched, would follow in the footsteps of its parent, perhaps only a short distance from the nest.
My older brother hatched two white ducklings in an incubator in his bedroom for a school project.
His arrival now completes the team of 10 other recently hatched baby flamingos who will soon be joining Theo on crèche island.
At the same time young newly hatched fish were also found on the shore.
They also have around 50 heron nesting here, I have seen young hatched in February but others still building their nests in March.
It is a slightly icky picture and you can see eggs that haven't hatched.
Newly released juveniles will need newly hatched Artemia and rotifers until they are a few days old.
The Sheep Nostril fly places already hatched larvae in the nostrils of sheep.
Like a chess master, it watches impassively as schemes are hatched and intentions are thwarted.
The hatched nymph looks more or less like a smaller version of the adult.
The little jenny wren, whose nest I mentioned in my previous letter, has now hatched out her family.
The young are hatched ' Yet Forbes states (Ibis, 1881, p. 358) that Seriema comes from Siri, " a diminutive of Indian extraction," and Ema, the Portuguese name for the Rhea (see Emeu), the whole thus meaning "Little Rhea."
There is no metamorphosis during growth such as occurs in some insects, the young being hatched with its full complement of appendages and only differing from its parents in characters of comparatively minor importance.