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Incubate

verb

(past & past part. incubated; pres. part. incubating)

Grow under conditions that promote development.

Sit on (eggs). Synonyms: brood, cover, hatch. "The female covers the eggs"

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"Incubate" Quotes from Famous Books

... British birds, is practised by many others elsewhere, and in particular by the American troupials, or cattle-starlings. One of these indeed goes even farther, since it entrusts its eggs to the care of a nest-building cousin. There are also American cuckoos that build their own nest and incubate ...

— Birds in the Calendar • Frederick G. Aflalo

... were seen from the train. These birds, the hens, lay in each other's nests, and the male incubates—perhaps to save the time of the hens; which reminds one of the cuckoo, who mates often, and whose stay is so limited that she has no time to incubate. Yet she does not lay in nests, but on the ground, and the eggs are deposited by the male in the nests of birds whose eggs they most resemble, and only one ...

— Ranching, Sport and Travel • Thomas Carson