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estivating

estivating is the present participle and gerund 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 estivating

What is estivating the present participle and gerund of?
Estivating is the present participle and gerund of estivate.

Words near estivating in the dictionary

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

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