How To Use Estivate In A Sentence
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These snails aestivate on the surface fully exposed to the sun.
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When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor.
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When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor.
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During dry weather both the juvenile and adult O. lactea aestivate on stems and blades of grass.
Otala lactea
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The larvae complete their feeding in less than two weeks and then estivate in cocoons, which they construct in the ground.
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They aestivate during the dry season but come up to the surface to spawn after the first rains.
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Seas were less affected than land, and many shore-based animals that ate marine species neither hibernated nor estivated.
A Circus of Hells
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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
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certain animals estivate
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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.
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The Australian Alps are also known for the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) which aestivate in the mountains each summer.
Australian Alps montane grasslands
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Sirens are known to aestivate when in habitats subject to drought.
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Many crayfish flee the sun downward, tunneling after the subsiding water table until they reach moist mud in which to estivate.
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In areas where the climate is the Mediterranean type, land snails aestivate during the dry and hot summers and are active during the fall, the mild winters and the spring.
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The toads must aestivate during the summer, burrowing down into the soil to survive the heat.
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According to the paper, some species of these frogs may aestivate in the wild for more than a year waiting for the rains.
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During the dry Mediterranean summers most Albinaria species aestivate attached to rocks and their unintentional human-assisted transport on building materials have been documented.
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Some crocodilians also estivate.
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If, improbably, he had thought that private affairs could have first attention and public business be left to aestivate the summer through, developments on the frontier soon would have aroused him.
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