1914 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 1 100 The problem of the overwintering of the apple scab is no sooner settled by one investigator for one locality than it is opened by another, working in a different environment.

1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 120 Overwintering sites may not have had very strong defences since they made use of natural obstacles and did not look far beyond the needs of a season.

1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 5950/2 The simple addition of narrow grass-covered banks to cereal fields in the United Kingdom has been shown to improve overwintering conditions for key predators of aphids.

1901 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1900 90 The overwintering crop.

1958 New Biol. 26 33 A lateral bud grows out from the corm [of the bulbous buttercup] in the autumn and gives rise to an over-wintering rosette of foliage leaves.

1994 R. H. Platt et al. Ecol. City ii. 75 The overwintering goose population peaked at about 1,500 birds the following winter, then gradually declined to its present level of 300 to 600 birds.