estivate
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estivate (third-person singular simple present estivates, present participle estivating, simple past and past participle estivated)
- (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
- Coordinate term: hibernate
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
- Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.
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go into stasis in the summer months
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estivate
- inflection of estivare:
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estivate f pl