HATCHERY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs)

Example:

the park authorities operated a trout hatchery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("hatchery" is a kind of...):

place; property (any area set aside for a particular purpose)

Derivation:

hatch (emerge from the eggs)

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