estivate

verb
/ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for estivate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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