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in·cu·ba·tor

incubator

 
pronunciation:
Ingk y beI tr
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part of speech: noun
definition 1: An incubator is a warm container that protects and helps babies that are sick or born too early.
The baby's mother put a little teddy bear inside her baby's incubator.
 
definition 2: A machine that uses heat to hatch eggs is called an "incubator."
We watched as some chicks in the incubator hatched from their shells.
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