NOUN
- (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period
- (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
How To Use estivation In A Sentence
- Just as commonly, petal aestivation was observed to be entirely imbricate.
- A similar pattern is apparent in the vertebrate record, though floodplain aestivation assemblages are known.
- By shutting down their intestinal tracts during estivation, these anurans reduce their daily energy expenditure.
- I have written about the aestivation of land snails during the hot and dry Mediterranean summers. Archive 2006-07-01
- Both aestivation and hibernation are found among the members of the family.
- The cocoons made by the 2 species of frogs that were the subjects of this study, Cyclorana australis and Cyclorana cultripes, during 46 and 51 days of aestivation in the laboratory, had 34 and 32-33 layers erroneously given as 51 in the abstract, see Table 1, respectively. Archive 2006-04-01
- If all goes well (says he for whom something routinely goes wrong at least twice a week), I shall emerge from aestivation within a week, and then we shall see. Arrived!
- Prior to the aestivation of the calyx, pairs of stamen primordia are initiated.
- The old man had a great deal to say about "aestivation," as he called it, in opposition, as one might say, to hibernation. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
- My only criticism of the paper is that the aestivation conditions in the lab were not clearly described, especially the ambient humidity was not reported. Archive 2006-04-01
