孵化 — meaning in English
fū huà
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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
- noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
- noun Informal term for the children of one family.
- verb Of a bird, to sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.
- verb To dwell unhappily on one's thoughts, often alone.
hatch — full definition
- noun A small door or opening, often in a floor, ceiling, wall, or vehicle.
- verb For a young animal to break out of its egg, or for an egg to produce a young animal.
- verb To plan or devise something, especially a scheme.