Synonyms:
hatch, hatching
Meaning: the production of young from an egg
Usage examples
Let us put everything into a glass-tube to study the hatching.
It might pay, though, if they could do the hatching; but cats at present cannot be taught to sit upon eggs.
'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day!
The farmer had come in and had joked his joke, and Mrs. Sturt had clacked over them as though they were a brood of chickens of her own hatching; and Mrs. Ray had smiled and cried, and sobbed and laughed till she had become almost hysterical. Then she had jumped up from her seat, saying, "Oh, dear, what will Dorothea think has become of us?"