Definition of Incubatory

1. a. Serving for incubation.

Definition of Incubatory

1. Adjective. Serving for incubation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incubatory

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incubatory

incrystallizable
incuba
incubae
incubate
incubated
incubates
incubating
incubation
incubation period
incubation time
incubations
incubative
incubative stage
incubator
incubators
incubatory (current term)
incubatory carrier
incubi
incubiture
incubous
incubuses
incudal
incudal fold
incudal fossa
incudate
incudectomy
incudes
incudiform
incudiform uterus

Literary usage of Incubatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Monograph on the Isopods of North America by Harriet Richardson (1905)
"Outside of this there is nothing more than the body wall transformed into an incubatory envelope, preserving nothing to recall the primitive Isopod, ..."

2. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"The ova would pass, as they became fecundated, into this incubatory cavity, would develope ... Perhaps, indeed, the incubatory sac may be thrown off bodily, ..."

3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"It is not easy to detect the mode of communication of the ovaries with the incubatory cavity. M. Buchholz, however, believes he has ascertained that in the ..."

4. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"Examples of incubatory forms occur among the ... In the following cases also eggs are laid in small numbers:—(1) In incubatory forms, ..."

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