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hatchery

/hach-uh-ree/US // ˈhætʃ ə ri //UK // (ˈhætʃərɪ) //

孵化器,孵化场,孵化厂,孵化室

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

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Examples

  • There are hatcheries right now that we have, they’re in Alaska, other places, that need community-college-level workers.

  • Now about 35 percent are, and the rest require at least some support from hatchery fish.

  • In July 2020, the UEP put out a statement saying it was still looking for “an economically feasible, commercially viable alternative to the practice of male chick culling at hatcheries.”

  • Not only would chick culling end but hatcheries wouldn’t “lose” half of all fertilized eggs that would have hatched into males.

  • The organization will bury the eggs at its hatcheries and, about two months later, bid the hatchlings adieu as they swim off to sea.

  • 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.