hatching

Among modern birds, the ability to fly immediately after hatching is almost unknown — with the notable exception of the maleo, a strange chickenlike bird that lives only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

As soon as nine days after hatching, the larvae began striking rapidly.

Male eggs are then used for animal feed and the females continue toward hatching.

And the wildest pattern is a subtle gray on gray cross-hatching.

He decries the search for “velvet-jacketed Bond villains” hatching a “malevolent plan.”

A reptile hatching from an egg must not cry out for its mother, or else it will be readily detected by predators and eaten.

The delicate cross-hatching that reached back to Hogarth and Dore was not as precise as it had been, but he was over 80 now.

What on earth are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hatching up for the Middle East this time?

Those in that trough right behind you are just hatching, they're from the first batch of spawn in the early spring run.

They are hatching out some marvelous schemes to write a play together.

An incubator about hatching time is a wonderful object lesson in teaching the story of life.

The hatching of all things out of an egg was another rude conception, chiefly noted among the Finns.

“Oh, those brutes are hatching no more mischief than usual,” grumbled the latter, who was hot and tired.