单词	dormant
释义	dormantdor‧mant /ˈdɔːmənt $ ˈdɔːr-/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINdormant Origin: 1300-1400 French present participle of dormir ‘to sleep’, from Latin dormire Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Wait to prune your roses until they are fully dormant in January. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Dan's arrival had aroused all her dormant sexuality. It was at that point, according to court papers, that his alleged spy career went dormant. Many have fickle requirements and others lie dormant until very precise conditions happen to come along. Since the inflorescence is not yet known, the plant is propagated only from dormant buds on the rhizome. Take a dry, dormant savanna, desert or thorn scrub and rouse it into spring with rising temperatures. The same is true of subsidiaries, whether trading or dormant. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► lie/remain dormant  The seeds remain dormant until the spring. ► dormant volcano  a huge dormant volcano COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► dormant volcano (=it has not erupted for a long time)· Volcanoes can remain dormant for hundreds of years. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► bud · New plants arise vegetatively from dormant buds on the short upright rhizome of the main root.· Within ten to thirty days between twenty to fifty new plants begin to develop from the dormant buds on the rhizome.· Since the inflorescence is not yet known, the plant is propagated only from dormant buds on the rhizome.· The plant can be reproduced by obtaining bud plants from dormant buds on the rhizome, but reproduction is usually from seeds. ► volcano · The term dormant volcano is applied during the period between eruptions to those volcanoes thought to be potentially active.· The site chosen for the painting is a view across the bays of the dormant volcano Rangitoto which dominates Auckland's skyline. not active or not growing at the present time but able to be active later OPP  activelie/remain dormant The seeds remain dormant until the spring. a huge dormant volcano—dormancy noun [uncountable]
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