hatch·er·y

[hach-uh-ree]
noun, plural hatch·er·ies.
a place for hatching eggs of hens, fish, etc., especially a large, commercial or government site where the young are hatched, cared for, and sold or distributed.

Origin:
1875–80; hatch1 + -ery

sub·hatch·er·y, noun, plural sub·hatch·er·ies.
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hatchery (ˈhætʃərɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -eries
a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions

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Hatchery is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
Volunteers aid in building hatcheries, monitor the nests in the hatchery,
  patrol the beach and collect the eggs in the beach.
Far away from visions of languid soups, these churning environments are the
  current best guess for the site of life's hatchery.
View kiwi conservation up close in the nocturnal house and at the hatchery.
It's due to a quality-control problem in the troll hatchery.
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