estivate
English
Alternative forms
- aestivate, æstivate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/
Verb
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.
Derived terms
- estival
- estivation
Translations
go into stasis in the summer months
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Anagrams
- aviettes, evitates
Italian
Verb
estivate
- inflection of estivare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
estivate f pl
- feminine plural of estivato
Anagrams
- evitaste, vestiate, vietaste