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Aestivation

noun
1.
(zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period.  Synonym: estivation.
2.
(botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens.  Synonym: estivation.






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"Aestivation" Quotes from Famous Books



... (addressing myself to the divinity-student,) and all such as have been through college, or, what is the same thing, received an honorary degree, will understand them without a dictionary. The old man had a great deal to say about "aestivation," as he called it, in opposition, as one might say, to hibernation. Intramural aestivation, or town-life in summer, he would say, is a peculiar form of suspended existence, or semi-asphyxia. One wakes up from it about the beginning ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)



Words linked to "Aestivation" :   quiescency, quiescence, botany, aestivate, dormancy, flower bud, zoology, zoological science, estivation, phytology, arrangement



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