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Examples of estivate
estivate
As a girl, her family left its Pasadena residence each summer to estivate in a house on the property where Montecito's Biltmore Hotel now stands.
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- Sleep during summer; "certain animals estivate"
- (estivation) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period
- (estivation) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
- Estivation or aestivation (from Latin aestas, summer), also known as "summer sleep", is a state of animal dormancy somewhat similar to hibernation. It takes place during times of heat and dryness, the hot dry season, which is often but not inevitably the summer months.
- To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months
- (ESTIVATION) Torpor brought on by extended periods of drought or heat
- (Estivation (aestivation)) A state of dormancy during heat or drought periods. Characterized by low metabolic activity and formation of a protective cocoon made of skin secretions or layers of shed skin.
- (Estivation) A reduction in physiological activity that occurs in response to heat and dry conditions, which is similar to hibernation or brumation.
- (Estivation) A sleepy or dormant state caused by hot, dry, summer conditions.
