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hatchling

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈhæt͡ʃlɪŋ/Part of speech nounSorted acghhilntStarts with HEnds with G0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. any recently hatched animal (especially birds)

Word origin

From hatch + -ling. Sense 2 in reference to the term crack one's egg (“realize one is transgender”).

Used in a sentence

  • The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds.
  • Hatchling nautiluses emerge, after nearly a year's gestation, as miniature adults and then immediately start swimming around, searching for food in the depths.

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