incubation
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4.9
- noun
- /ˌɪŋkjʊˈbeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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incubación
- Eaglets emerge following about 35 days of incubation and fledge after three months in the nest.
- incubation for 72 hours
- incubation period
- incubation temperature
They know that incubation helps and mother can be a powerful incubator.
- They know that incubation helps and mother can be a powerful incubator.
Examples
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A fertilized hen egg, for instance, given the proper environment and time for incubation, will become a chicken.
Academic text (1990) -
Candling the eggs midway through the incubation period is a good idea.
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This must be their incubation chamber.
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The incubation times were selected in order to obtain early and late incubation times.
Academic text (2018) -
And the warmer temperatures speed up the incubation rate inside the mosquito.
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Patagonian penguins are traveling farther north during incubation than they did a decade ago.
Academic text (2008) -
Each year during incubation, Patagonian penguins forage hundreds of kilometers north of their nest at Punta Tombo.
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The clutch consists of three or four eggs; incubation takes about a dozen days.
Synonyms
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7.3
Sitting on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch
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Etymology
Incubation comes from the Latin incubare, made of in- 'on' and cubare 'to lie down'. Think of a mother hen 'sitting on' her eggs to keep them warm; that 'sitting on' is incubation, the process that lets eggs develop.