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- Incubation - n. - A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
- Incubation - n. - The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
- Incubation - n. - A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
- Ovicyst - n. - The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.
- Pipefish - n. - Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.