(transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate

simple past tense and past participle of incubate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incube

(botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that distal (anterior) parts of older leaves overlap the proximal (posterior) parts of younger ones.

Of or pertaining to incubation.

present participle of incubate

plural of incubation

To bury or encase. / To incubate.

Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.