incubates in English

verb
1
(of a bird) sit on (eggs) in order to keep them warm and bring them to hatching.
When most birds incubate eggs, the females often produce high levels of prolactin, a hormone involved in parental behavior.
verb

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1. The female bird incubates the eggs for about sixteen days while the male brings food.

2. South American toad; incubates its young in pits in the skin of its back.

3. 29 The female bird incubates the eggs for about sixteen days while the male brings food.

4. The Brooding sea anemone (Epiactis prolifera) is a colonial hermaphrodite that fertilizes and incubates its eggs internally

5. A hummingbird incubates her eggs in a nest built partly with fibers of the Ochroma fruit, which grows after pollinated flowers wither.

6. When a hen naturally incubates eggs, she will stop laying new ones and sit on a “clutch” of 6 or more eggs for 21 days.

7. The effects of in vitro addition of prolactin (50 μg/ml) upon the conversion of testosterone to 5α dihydrotestosterone (5α DHT) and 5α androstanediol by incubates of rat mammary carcinomas have been investigated.The studies have been performed on (a) primary Adenocarcinomata induced by the carcinogen 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene (DMBA) in female Sprague-Dawley rats, and (b) …