hatchery
hatchery
Definition
hatch·ery (hac̸h′ər ē)
noun pl. -·er·ies
a place for hatching eggs, esp. those of fish or poultry
hatchery
Synonyms
hatchery
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- build: Expanding or building more hatcheries will increase the rate of chickens hatching, thus providing more food.
- operate: This could be teaching classes, developing curriculums, conducting beach clean ups and operating school hatcheries.
- visit: We first visited the fish hatchery where the facilities were excellent with good birding right next to the river.
- bear: However, in Montana and many other prime rivers in the world, most of the rivers are not stocked with hatchery born fish.
- have: The estate has an organic salmon hatchery, mussel farm and hill farm with Highland Cattle and Hebridean Sheep.
Preposition: on
- beach: In Malaya eggs are brought so special hatcheries on the beach and the young distributed ar sea so reduce the predator hazard.
Adjective modifier
- commercial: In 1994 Tropical Marine Center established the first commercial hatchery of its kind in Europe, based entirely on a synthetic seawater re-circulation system.
- marine: It boasted the first marine hatchery in the UK.
- local: These included work as a caretaker, a mail coach driver and work in the local fish hatchery, Cannery Row near Monterey.
- wild: This is likely to be largely due to the stocking densities and the relatively short periods fish are reared for in wild fish hatcheries.
Modifies a noun
- fish: Hatchery fish learn none of these lessons in their tank.
- facility: A commercial hatchery facility was opened in 1994 and today produces several species of marine fishes for the ornamental market.
- waste: Hatchery waste chicks should be humanely killed, then immediately laid out on shelves and blast frozen, prior to packing.
- environment: One reason is that fish reared in plain hatchery environments do not know how to behave in the wild.
Noun used with modifier
- turtle: It has started sea turtle surveys and a conservation program for them in India, including a sea turtle hatchery.
- trout: Today, the kingfisher can be a problem at trout hatcheries or garden ponds.
- fish: We first visited the fish hatchery where the facilities were excellent with good birding right next to the river.
- salmon: There is also evidence of its use in salmon hatcheries.
- lobster: Moving on to Padstow, where a new lobster hatchery is based.
- freshwater: Salmon eggs are fertilized by artificial insemination and incubated in large holding trays at freshwater hatcheries.
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