单词 | hibernate |
释义 | hibernatev. 1. intransitive. To winter; to spend the winter in some special state suited to resist it; said esp. of animals that pass the winter in a state of torpor. transferred. Of persons: To winter in a milder locality. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > hibernate latibulize1802 hibernate1816 to den up1843 to hole up1890 the world > time > period > year > season > [verb (intransitive)] > pass the spring, summer, or winter winterc1384 summer1440 aestivate1623 perhiemate1623 summerize1797 hibernate1816 spring1835 December1845 overwinter1895 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] > in winter winterc1384 hut1691 winter-quarter1693 winter1826 hibernate1865 overwinter1895 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) II. 349 It is probable that some insects of almost every order hybernate in the egg state. 1827 L. Jermyn Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum (new ed.) 115 This species hybernates in the perfect state and sometimes survives the winter. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hibernate, To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters or in seclusion, as birds or beasts. Darwin. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Oct. 10 There are now positively no places on the shores of the Mediterranean where invalids can hybernate cheaply and comfortably. 2. figurative. a. Of persons: To remain in a torpid or inactive state. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > be inactive [verb (intransitive)] > temporarily latibulize1802 hibernate1829 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More I. 39 Inclination would lead me to hibernate during half the year. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 94 The public institution in which he hibernated (so to speak) during the other three hundred and sixty-four days of the year. b. Of things: To lie dormant. ΚΠ 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 305 The unsettled questions are hybernating, probably to bud and burgeon again at some future season. Derivatives ˈhibernating n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > hibernating latitant1646 dormitive1694 dormant1772 hibernant1836 hibernating1836 the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [adjective] > hibernating hibernating1836 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 766/2 In the sleep of the hibernating animal, the respiration is..impaired. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 395 Propagated by budding from marginal clefts, and by autumnal hybernating bulbils. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 262 ‘Hibernating gland’, a gland found in many Rodentia, Chiroptera, and Insectivora. ˈhiberˌnator n. an animal that hibernates. ΚΠ 1883 Sunday Mag. 674 The Faurde is really one of the hibernators, like our own hedgehog. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1816 |
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