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æstivation

æstivation is the archaic spelling of aestivation.

Meaning of aestivation

Noun

aestivation (countable and uncountable, plural aestivations)

  1. A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
  2. The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
  3. (obsolete) The spending or passing of a summer.
    • On the Vnder Story, tovvards the Garden, Let it be turned to a Grotta, or Place of Shade, or Eſtiuation.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building. XLV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 263

Forms of æstivation

pluralæstivations

Questions about æstivation

What is æstivation the archaic spelling of?
Æstivation is the archaic spelling of aestivation.

Words near æstivation in the dictionary

  1. æstival
  2. æstivate
  3. æstivated
  4. æstivates
  5. æstivating
  6. æstivation
  7. æstivations
  8. æstuaries
  9. æstuary
  10. æstuate
  11. æstuated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æstivation (page history and authors); aestivation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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