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plural hatchlings
A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg. quotations examples
Hatchling nautiluses emerge, after nearly a year's gestation, as miniature adults and then immediately start swimming around, searching for food in the depths.
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, page 90
(LGBT, slang) A person who has (especially recently) realized that they are transgender.