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estivate

/ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/

estivate verb: to go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.

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

estivate meaning in Persian

estivate in Persian

go into stasis in the summer months
تابستان خفتن tâbestân xoftan

Forms of estivate

third-person singular presentestivates
present participleestivating
past participleestivated
pastestivated
alternative formaestivate
alternative formæstivate

Words formed from estivate

Questions about estivate

What does estivate mean?
Estivate means to go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
What is estivate in Persian?
Estivate in Persian is تابستان خفتن (tâbestân xoftan). See Estivate meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is estivate?
Estivate is a verb.
How do you pronounce estivate?
Estivate is pronounced /ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/.
What is the past tense of estivate?
The past tense of estivate is estivated.

Words near estivate in the dictionary

  1. estipulate
  2. Estis
  3. Estises
  4. Estish
  5. estival
  6. estivate
  7. estivated
  8. estivates
  9. estivating
  10. estivation
  11. estivations

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