hatcher

plural hatchers

1. One who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.

   I bought some chicks from a commercial hatcher.

2. Something that hatches, such as a bird or the egg from which it hatches.

   Incubators must be carefully monitored so that hatchers and nonhatchers may both be further handled promptly.

   1 more example

   Under these conditions the late-hatching strategy quickly went extinct, usually within 10 years. With no difference in survivorship between hatching early and late, the early hatchers that survive each produce 20 offspring […]

   1989, Bart Thomas De Stasio, Dormancy and egg banks of freshwater zooplankton: structure and dynamics

   Synonyms: hatchling

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Quitman County, Georgia.
   2. An unincorporated community in Taylor County, Kentucky.