INCUBATES
- INCUBATE, to warm eggs for hatching [v]
- (of a bird) Sit on (eggs) in order to keep them warm and bring them to hatching
- (esp. in a laboratory) Keep (eggs, cells, bacteria, embryos, etc.) at a suitable temperature so that they develop
- Have an infectious disease developing inside one before symptoms appear
- Develop slowly without outward or perceptible signs