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单词 estivation
释义

estivation

noun

es·​ti·​va·​tion ˌe-stə-ˈvā-shən How to pronounce estivation (audio)
variants or aestivation
1
zoology : the state or condition of torpidity or dormancy induced by the heat and dryness of summer : the state of one that is estivating
Some animals, including various species of snakes, land snails, and lizards, enter a state of dormancy, or estivation, in the summer when water is scarce. Carrol B. Fleming
… they [land snails of the genus Cerion] spend most of this time in the warm weather equivalent of hibernation (called estivation), hanging upside down from vegetation or affixed to rocks. Stephen Jay Gould
2
usually aestivation, botany : the arrangement or position of the petals or sepals in a flower bud
In practice, aestivation is best observed by making hand sections of mature flower buds … Michael G. Simpson
… flowers on the same plants or the same stem may exhibit either clockwise or counterclockwise spiral estivations … Carlos Herrera
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Word History

First Known Use

1783, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Medical Definition

estivation

noun

es·​ti·​va·​tion
variants or aestivation
ˌes-tə-ˈvā-shən How to pronounce estivation (audio)
: the state of one that estivates
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