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hatchery

[ hach-uh-ree ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural hatch·er·ies.

a place for hatching hatch hatching eggs of hens, fish, etc., especially a large, commercial or government site where the young are hatched, hatch, cared for, and sold or distributed.

hatchery

/ ˈhætʃərɪ /

First recorded in 1875–80; hatch ¹ + -ery

What a to-do they make when you approach their outdoor hatchery!

He began by dumping out into a worthless and landlocked bass-pond every brown trout in the hatchery.

Salmon have a peculiarity which makes it easy for the hatchery people.

At the head of the lake is a hotel and a fish hatchery; no store, no factory, not even a Chautauqua.

The female sun-fish (called, I believe, in England, the roach or bream) makes a "hatchery" for her eggs in this wise.

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