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HATCHERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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