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estivates

estivates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about estivates

What is estivates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Estivates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of estivate.

Words near estivates in the dictionary

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

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