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(verb) emerge from the eggs; of birds or reptiles |
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Related Words: be born |
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(noun) a covering for a hatchway |
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Related Words: movable barrier |
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(noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines |
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Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching |
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Related Words: shading |
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(noun) the production of young from an egg |
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Synonyms: hatching |
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Related Words: birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition |
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(verb) sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" |
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Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate |
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Related Words: multiply, procreate, reproduce |
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(verb) devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software" |
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Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up |
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Related Words: cook up, create by mental act, create mentally, fabricate, idealise, idealize, invent, make up, manufacture |
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