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unhatched

/ ʌnˈhætʃt /

adjective

  1. (of an egg) not having broken to release the fully developed young
  2. (of a bird, snake, etc) not having emerged from the egg
  3. (of a plan, mission, etc) not having been fully developed or carried out
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

When Polkinghorne went out to check on her incubated emu eggs after the spring storm caused a power outage, she thought all the unhatched chicks were goners.

It’s hard to say whether this individual cat was more adventurous than the average bobcat, but it suggests one potential way the python’s proliferation could be limited — by other animals eating their unhatched young.

Mr. P moved “DC8 away from DC9′s unhatched egg and the female would periodically move it back,” according to Greeley.

They schedule its care, using dormitory lamps to warm the unhatched gosling, which James names Crookshanks.

The first death blow was the flooding of nests with unhatched eggs.

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