Definition of "hatchling" [hatchling]

• A newly hatched bird, amphibian, fish, or reptile. (noun)

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• "Originally identified as a hatchling dinosaur, the fossils were recognized to include a snake by dinosaur paleontologist Jeff Wilson from the University of Michigan and Mohabey in 2001."
• "The hatchling was the culmination of three years of effort by zookeepers watching over every step of its parents 'courtship and mating to make sure everything went as planned, said Tay."
• "But the image of a nude Daenerys, sitting amid the ashes of Khal Drogo's funeral pyre as her three hatchling dragons emerge around their queen, didn't disappoint."