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fish hatchery
noun
- a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fish hatchery1
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
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Example Sentences
At the head of the lake is a hotel and a fish hatchery; no store, no factory, not even a Chautauqua.
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Soon we are racing across the level to the Fish Hatchery, between avenues of quaking aspens and young tamaracks and pines.
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A fish hatchery has been established at Port Erin by the insular government.
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The federal government maintains here a life-saving station on Minnesota Point, and an extensive fish hatchery.
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And all because a turtle-fed, claret-flushed, idle and rich young man wants their earthly Paradise for a fish-hatchery.
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