释义 |
incubatorin‧cu‧ba‧tor /ˈɪŋkjəbeɪtə $ -ər/ noun [countable] - D., you may be in that inorganic incubator until you are forty-five.
- He was in the next incubator at Guy's hospital to first victim Dean Bunn.
- One city planner said Escondido has become known as an incubator city.
- Seeing him lying in an incubator for the first time was a uniquely distressing experience.
- The drive motor should be fitted outside the incubator to prevent any local heating effect.
- The mouths of these fishes are large and they are oral incubators, the males carrying the eggs.
- These were removed from the nest and hatched indoors in an incubator.
- With customary caution, he is keeping his options open while the issue is still in the political incubator.
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