posthatchling
posthatchling noun: a young animal that is no longer a hatchling.
Noun
posthatchling (plural posthatchlings)
- A young animal that is no longer a hatchling
- In the posthatchling group, there was almost three times as much data for the ‘south’ than for the ‘north’ subset, so data from the ‘south’ were censored (randomly selected 1300 triplets) to match the number of data triplets of the ‘north’ subset.2015 December 3, “Size Scaling in Western North Atlantic Loggerhead Turtles Permits Extrapolation between Regions, but Not Life Stages”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Forms of posthatchling
| plural | posthatchlings |
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Origin of posthatchling
From post- + hatchling.
Questions about posthatchling
- What does posthatchling mean?
- Posthatchling means a young animal that is no longer a hatchling.
- What part of speech is posthatchling?
- Posthatchling is a noun.
- What is the plural of posthatchling?
- The plural of posthatchling is posthatchlings.
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