aestivation
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌiːstɪˈveɪʃən/
aestivation
- (biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
- (botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
- (obsolete) The spending or passing of a summer.
- French: estivation
- German: Sommerschlaf
- Portuguese: estivação
- Russian: ле́тняя спя́чка
- Spanish: estivación
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