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posthatchlings

posthatchlings is the plural of posthatchling.

Meaning of posthatchling

Noun

posthatchling (plural posthatchlings)

  1. 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

Questions about posthatchlings

What is posthatchlings the plural of?
Posthatchlings is the plural of posthatchling.

Words near posthatchlings in the dictionary

  1. postharvesting
  2. posthaste
  3. posthatch
  4. posthatching
  5. posthatchling
  6. posthatchlings
  7. posthe-
  8. posthearing
  9. postheat
  10. postheated
  11. postheating

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