hatchable

Ready to crack

Hatchable describes something capable of being hatched—typically an egg containing a viable embryo that can develop and emerge: The farmer separated the hatchable eggs from the unfertilized ones.

In video games, hatchable often describes collectible eggs or items that yield creatures or rewards: I finally got a hatchable dragon egg.

incubation

incubator

Controlled warming enclosure

temperature · humidity · turning · candling · embryo · development · gestation · brooding · sitting · nurture

emergence

chick

Young bird, especially poultry

nestling · fledgling · brood · pecking · pipping · shell · crack · birth · emerge · break out

fertility

fertile

Able to reproduce abundantly

  • eggReproductive cell in shell
  • oviparousReproducing through external eggs
  • spawnAquatic eggs or generate

breeding · reproduction · clutch · laying · viability · fecundity · prolific · brood · nesting · mating

potential

promise

Commitment to act

unrealized · dormant · possibility · budding · nascent · incipient · embryonic · unfolding · ready · awaiting

Opposites
viability for hatching

hatchableunhatchable

Unable to produce young

infertile · sterile · unfertilized · nonviable · inviable

Family

hatchability

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G