hibernaculum

English edit

hibernaculum (plural hibernacula)

(zoology) The place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 10, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
  Aeolus Cave, which is set into a wooded hillside in Dorset, Vermont, is believed to be the largest bat hibernaculum in New England; it is estimated that before white-nose hit, nearly three hundred thousand bats—some from as far away as Ontario and Rhode Island—came there to spend the winter.
(botany) A bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period.

zoology: shelter for winter

botany: wintering bud

From hībernō (“spend the winter”) +‎ -culum.

(Classical) IPA^(key): /hiː.berˈnaː.ku.lum/, [hiːbɛrˈnäːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.berˈna.ku.lum/, [iberˈnäːkulum]

hībernāculum n (genitive hībernāculī); second declension

“hibernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
hibernaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.