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hibernaculum

Syllables: hi·ber·nac·u·lumUK/haɪ.bəˈnak.juː.ləm/US/ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈnæk.jə.ləm/

hibernaculum noun: the place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter.

Noun

hibernaculum (plural hibernacula)

  1. The place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter.
    • Aeolus Cave, which is set into a wooded hillside in Dorset, Vermont, is believed to be the largest bat hibernaculum in New England; it is estimated that before white-nose hit, nearly three hundred thousand bats—some from as far away as Ontario and Rhode Island—came there to spend the winter.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 10, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company
    • In winter, NLEBs use caves and mines as hibernacula.⁹⁴ Suitable habitat for the NLEB is present within the Proposed Route.2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 98
  2. A bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period.

hibernaculum meaning in Bengali

hibernaculum in Bengali

প্রাণীদের শীতকালীন আশ্রয়স্থল

Forms of hibernaculum

pluralhibernacula

Origin of hibernaculum

Borrowed from Latin hībernāculum (“winter quarters”).

Questions about hibernaculum

What does hibernaculum mean?
Hibernaculum means the place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter.
What is hibernaculum in Bengali?
Hibernaculum in Bengali is প্রাণীদের শীতকালীন আশ্রয়স্থল. See Hibernaculum meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hibernaculum?
Hibernaculum is a noun.
How do you pronounce hibernaculum?
Hibernaculum is pronounced /haɪ.bəˈnak.juː.ləm/ (UK).
What is the plural of hibernaculum?
The plural of hibernaculum is hibernacula.

Words near hibernaculum in the dictionary

  1. Hibdons
  2. hibernacle
  3. hibernacles
  4. hibernacula
  5. hibernacular
  6. hibernaculum
  7. hibernal
  8. hibernant
  9. hibernants
  10. hibernate
  11. hibernated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hibernaculum (page history and authors); hibernaculum (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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