estivateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/

動詞

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.

   Coordinate terms: hibernate, brumate

   • 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.

派生語

• estival
• estivation

アナグラム

• aviettes, evitates