How To Use estivate In A Sentence
- These snails aestivate on the surface fully exposed to the sun. Archive 2006-04-01
- When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor.
- When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor.
- During dry weather both the juvenile and adult O. lactea aestivate on stems and blades of grass. Otala lactea
- The larvae complete their feeding in less than two weeks and then estivate in cocoons, which they construct in the ground.
- They aestivate during the dry season but come up to the surface to spawn after the first rains.
- Seas were less affected than land, and many shore-based animals that ate marine species neither hibernated nor estivated. A Circus of Hells
- Water pressure dropped with the level; lower temperatures meant a higher equilibrium concentration of dissolved oxygen, which affected the fairly shallow depths at which the People estivated; current shifted, altering the local content of minerals raised from the ocean bed. A Circus of Hells
- certain animals estivate
- The multi-layered cocoons form from outer epidermal cells that the frogs seem to shed in layers; the longer they aestivate, the more layers they add. Archive 2006-04-01