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incubatory

incubatory adjective: serving for or pertaining to incubation.

Adjective

incubatory (not comparable)

  1. Serving for or pertaining to incubation.
    • The measurement investigations show furthermore that some of the wintered gammarid females commenced to get eggs in their incubatory pouches at about the end of January.1922, Report of the Danish Biological Station, page 34
    • Two incubatory pockets in the body wall also occur in Cucumaria coatsi.2005, D.R. Khanna, Biology of Echinodermata, page 152
    Synonyms:
    incubative

Noun

incubatory (plural incubatories)

  1. A building where eggs are incubated.
    • As already stated, the incubatory is constructed of sun-dried bricks, mortar and earth.1888 February, “An Egyptian Incubatory”, in The Southern Cultivator and Industrial Journal, volume 46, number 2, page 58
    • Eggs are bought for the incubatory at never exceeding 5 cents per dozen, and chicks just from the shell are sold at less than 15 cents per dozen.1890, United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Commercial Relations of the United States, page 504

Synonyms of incubatory

Forms of incubatory

pluralincubatories

Questions about incubatory

What does incubatory mean?
Incubatory means serving for or pertaining to incubation.
What part of speech is incubatory?
Incubatory can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near incubatory in the dictionary

  1. incubator
  2. incubatoria
  3. incubatories
  4. incubatorium
  5. incubators
  6. incubatory
  7. incube
  8. incubed
  9. incubee
  10. incubees
  11. incubes

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