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aestivations

aestivations is the plural 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

Questions about aestivations

What is aestivations the plural of?
Aestivations is the plural of aestivation.

Words near aestivations in the dictionary

  1. aestivate
  2. aestivated
  3. aestivates
  4. aestivating
  5. aestivation
  6. aestivations
  7. aestivator
  8. aestivators
  9. aestive
  10. aestivo-autumnal
  11. aestivoautumnal

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