estivate
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/
Verb
estivate (third-person singular simple present estivates, present participle estivating, simple past and past participle estivated)
- (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
- Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.
Derived terms
Translations
go into stasis in the summer months
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
estivate
- inflection of estivare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
estivate f pl
- feminine plural of estivato