You will have to incubate the eggs artificially.
Source: tatoeba (5254483)
Incubate
//ˈɪŋkjʊbeɪt//
Synonyms for "incubate" (9 found)
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5 entriessimilar
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27 translations across 19 languages.
Aragonese
2 entries- cobar verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
- encobar verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Bikol Central
1 entries- pahimsa verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Bulgarian
3 entries- измътвам verb (incubate metaphorically)
- мътя verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
- развъждам verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Catalan
2 entries- covar verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
- incubar verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 孵化 verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
- 潜伏 verb (incubate metaphorically)
Esperanto
1 entries- kovi verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Finnish
3 entries- hautoa verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
- hautoa verb (incubate metaphorically)
- pohtia verb (incubate metaphorically)
French
1 entries- incuber verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Galician
1 entries- incubar verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
German
1 entries- ausbrüten verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Hebrew
1 entries- דָּגַר verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Irish
1 entries- gor verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Italian
1 entries- incubare verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Māori
1 entries- pēhi verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Portuguese
1 entries- incubar verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- guir verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
- guir verb (incubate metaphorically)
Spanish
1 entries- incubar verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Tamil
1 entries- அடைகா verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Thai
1 entries- ฟัก verb (brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue)
Sample sentences
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You should incubate your bacterial culture at 37 degrees.
Source: tatoeba (5257465)
The places where the birds are nesting are interesting spots to visit. Both parents incubate and the scene is animated as the birds fly about in all directions.
Source: wiktionary
Part of our problem in praying for our children, he suggested, is the time lage, the necessary slow maturation of our prayers. But that's the way of God's rhythm in nature. For instance, the hen must patiently sit on her eggs to incubate them before the baby chicks hatch.
Source: wiktionary
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