0 present participle of incubate
1 When a bird, etc. incubates its eggs, it keeps them warm until the young come out, and when eggs incubate, they develop to the stage at which the young come out:
2 When harmful bacteria or viruses incubate, or when a person or animal incubates them, they increase in size or number in the person's or animal's body but do not yet produce the effects of disease.
Thus, the cuckoo deposits eggs in passerine nests, tricking the foster parents into incubating and feeding the cuckoo's young.
No nest is depicted, but the postures are those of the incubating female and the male about to leave in search of food.
When approached to 15 m, only a few incubating birds in the rarely visited parts of the island flew off.
Its efficiency could be greatly increased if genotype information is available, by identifying susceptible animals and removing those potentially incubating the disease.
The control activity was determined by incubating the enzyme in the same conditions, but without inhibitor.
Incubating seeds at fluctuating temperatures in the light, after cold stratification, had a stimulating effect on embryo growth and seed germination.
The sections were dehydrated by incubating the slides in 70% ethanol for 15 s and in 100% ethanol twice, 15 s each.
According to the experiment procedure, incubating of the sample was performed overnight (16 h) until complete lysis was achieved.