| 释义 |
estivate, v.
An occasional spelling of æstivate, to spend the summer; esp. of animals, to spend the summer in a state of torpor.
1656–81in Blount Glossogr. 1854Thoreau Walden xvi. (1863) 317 As if he had a design to estivate with us. 1883Sunday Mag. 676 The unfortunate reptile was estivating exactly under the spot where the fire had been made. |