incubativeadj.
/ˈɪnkjuːbeɪtɪv/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the incubation of oviparous animals.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [adjective] > relating to incubation
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1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. II. xi. 285 A beautiful thing is the incubative, the pre-maternal instinct.
2. Pathology. Of or pertaining to the incubation of disease; characterized by incubation.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [adjective] > incubative
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1835 G. Gregory Theory & Pract. Med. (ed. 4) ii. v. 149 The circumstance of the initiatory catarrhal fever, being viewed, or not, as constituting part of the incubative stage.
1859 A. Bryson in J. F. W. Herschel Man. Sci. Enq. (Lords Commissioners Admiralty) (ed. 3) 248 Its incubative period—the time which the infectious germs when separated from their source will retain their productiveness.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 477 The incubative period [of yellow fever] is longer than usually supposed.
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