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estivation

estivation is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of estivation

pluralestivations

Questions about estivation

What is estivation the alternative spelling of?
Estivation is the alternative spelling of aestivation.

Words near estivation in the dictionary

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

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