estivate
IPA: ˈɛstʌveɪt
verb
- (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
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Examples of "estivate" in Sentences
- They may also estivate in the summer in drought conditions.
- During times of extreme heat, it has been known to estivate.
- They do not know whether to run, estivate, or start digging. "
- Until recently no primate, and no tropical mammal, was known to estivate.
- I am going to put a layer of leaf mold and ice cubes in the basement and estivate.
- Other animals, such as lungfish and tortoises, burrow into the mud and estivate to survive.
- I did not see any live Albinaria, which estivate on rock surfaces and are, therefore, easy to spot.
- I'll bet snails can estivate for a really long time, especially desert forms that only rarely encounter damp conditions.
- A few freshwater mussels are known to estivate for a few years-Wendel Haag had a Uniomerus on his desk from when he found it until he finished his dissertation.
- At first it looked like a vast blue fort or Valhalla; but when they began to tuck the coarse meadow hay into the crevices, and this became covered with rime and icicles, it looked like a venerable moss-grown and hoary ruin, built of azure-tinted marble, the abode of Winter, that old man we see in the almanac — his shanty, as if he had a design to estivate with us.
- They hibernate — they estivate and they hibernate — until the following January, when you will have forgotten what a pain it was to follow the show week after unrewarding week, and you'll be able to feel excited by the return of the boinging theme music, and the old panel of judges, who will file in wearily and act pained that they have to sit through it all again.
- At first it looked like a vast blue fort or Valhalla; but when they began to tuck the coarse meadow hay into the crevices, and this became covered with rime and icicles, it looked like a venerable moss-grown and hoary ruin, built of azure-tinted marble, the abode of Winter, that old man we see in the almanac, -- his shanty, as if he had a design to estivate with us.
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