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孵化 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • brood noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
  • hatch noun A small door or opening, often in a floor, ceiling, wall, or vehicle.
  • incubate verb To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
  • incubation noun The process of keeping eggs warm so they can develop and hatch.

Senses

孵化 is used for these senses in English:

  • brood (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
  • eclose (intransitive) To give rise to, or to undergo, eclosion.
  • eclosion (biology) The emergence of an insect from the pupa case, or of a larva from the egg.
  • hatch (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  • incubate (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
  • incubation Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.

brood — full definition

  1. noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
  2. noun Informal term for the children of one family.
  3. verb Of a bird, to sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.
  4. verb To dwell unhappily on one's thoughts, often alone.

hatch — full definition

  1. noun A small door or opening, often in a floor, ceiling, wall, or vehicle.
  2. verb For a young animal to break out of its egg, or for an egg to produce a young animal.
  3. verb To plan or devise something, especially a scheme.

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