<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.</li><li>something deriving in appearance, function, or general character from an earlier form.</li><li>an adherent who follows closely the teachings, methods, practices, etc., of an earlier master, as in art, music, philosophy, etc.; disciple.</li><li>Astrology: the point opposite the ascendant; the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac setting below the western horizon at the time of a birth or of an event; the cusp of the seventh house.</li></ul><p><strong>verb</strong></p><ul><li>to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.</li><li>to hatch (eggs), as by sitting upon them or by artificial heat.</li><li>to maintain at a favorable temperature and in other conditions promoting development, as cultures of bacteria or prematurely born infants.</li><li>to develop or produce as if by hatching; give form to: His brain was incubating schemes for raising money.</li><li>to undergo incubation.</li><li>to develop; grow; take form: A plan was slowly incubating in her mind.</li></ul>