incubatory

1. not comparableServing for or pertaining to incubation.

   Two incubatory pockets in the body wall also occur in Cucumaria coatsi.

   2005, D.R. Khanna, Biology of Echinodermata, page 152

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   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

   Incubatory medicine was popular in the Greco-Roman world, the most famous example being the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidauros in southern Greece, which attracted many pilgrims seeking healing.

   2016, Sergey Minov, “The therapy for grief and the practice of incubation in early medieval Palestine”, in Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Derek Krueger, editors, Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries, page 220

   Synonyms: incubative

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

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   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