Aestivation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Variant of estivation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
  • n. The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
  • n. The spending or passing of a summer.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.
  • n. The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
  • n. (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period
    • Antonym
    hibernation   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    arrangement    quiescence    dormancy    quiescency   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    prefloration   
     
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