covar — meaning in English

English meaning

• brood noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
• incubate verb To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.

Senses

covar is used for these senses in English:

• brood (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
• incubate (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.

brood — full definition

1. noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
2. noun Informal term for the children of one family.
3. verb Of a bird, to sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.
4. verb To dwell unhappily on one's thoughts, often alone.

incubate — full definition

1. verb To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
2. verb To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.

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