Incubate
Incubate verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Usage example: the hen incubated her eggs for two weeks
Lay and incubate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lay" instead a verb "Incubate".
Nearby Words: incubation, incubator, incubating, incubatory, incubative
Lay
Lay verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
Both words in one sentence
- Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Matilda's species of monsters hatch from eggs that the females lay and incubate.
Source: Web Comic / Step Monster -
Birds on the other hand do not require food yet, they lay and incubate eggs in large clutches, and it is theoretically possible to surpass the population cap many times over by having forty female turkeys (a dozen or so eggs per clutch) and one male, and enough nestboxes for a massive birdsplosion.
Source: Explosive Breeder -
Done with the titular alien species in Chalker's Web of The Chozen: Female choz lay six eggs and both males and females incubate them in brood pouches.
Source: Mr. Seahorse
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