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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French éclosion, from éclore to hatch, from Vulgar Latin *exclaudere, alteration of Latin excludere to hatch out, exclude Date: circa 1889 of an insect the act of emerging from the pupal case or hatching from the egg

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the emergence of an insect from a pupa-case or of a larva from an egg. Etymology: F éclosion f. éclore hatch (as EX-(1), L claudere to close)