Hatch and Start

Hatch

Hatch verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.

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Start and hatch are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Start" instead a verb "Hatch".

Nearby Words: hatched, hatchet, hatching, hatchback, hatchway

Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).

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Hatch and start are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hatch" instead a verb "Start".

Nearby Words: started, startled, starting, starter, startup

You start out with a handful of food pellets and a seaman egg to start with where you must hatch the egg and raise the resulting seaman or rather, seamen to maturity.

Source: Video Game / Seaman
Bizarre Alien Biology: The Things start out as Eggs, hatch into caterpillar-like Babies, and then become globby two-legged Adults.

Source: Tabletop Game / The Awful Green Things From Outer Space
The eggs hatch 4-12 days later and the larvae start eating their way through the body.

Source: Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong

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