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aestivate

aestivate is the alternative spelling of estivate.

Meaning of estivate

Verb

estivate (third-person singular simple present estivates, present participle estivating, simple past and past participle estivated)

  1. (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
    • Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company

Forms of aestivate

third-person singular presentaestivates
present participleaestivating
past participleaestivated
pastaestivated

Questions about aestivate

What is aestivate the alternative spelling of?
Aestivate is the alternative spelling of estivate.

Words near aestivate in the dictionary

  1. aesthetizes
  2. aesthetizing
  3. aestho-physiology
  4. aestiferous
  5. aestival
  6. aestivate
  7. aestivated
  8. aestivates
  9. aestivating
  10. aestivation
  11. aestivations

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