Examples
“The Australian Alps are also known for the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) which aestivate in the mountains each summer.”
“During dry weather both the juvenile and adult O. lactea aestivate on stems and blades of grass.”
“These snails aestivate on the surface fully exposed to the sun.”
“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.”
“According to the paper, some species of these frogs may aestivate in the wild for more than a year waiting for the rains.”
“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.”
“During the dry Mediterranean summers most Albinaria species aestivate attached to rocks and their unintentional human-assisted transport on building materials have been documented.”
“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.”
“For five years he wrote the daily word sent our as the Word of the Day at yourDictionary and since 2004 he has been writing the Good Word at alphaDictionary. aestivate”
“Animals & Wildlife During which season is an animal most likely to aestivate?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aestivate’.
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Rest in Please
Sorry if I don't make a bunch of words
I'm. So. Sleepy.Rumpelstiltskin, forty winks, zzzzz, repose, rest, kip, slumber, noctambulo, aestivate, pandiculation, agrypnotic, jaded and 2 more...
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euphonic logorrhea
cephalopodous, plumulaceous, oblomovism, etiolation, pavonine, somnolent, logorrhea, fulguration, gossamer, prestidigitation, daffodil, inchoate and 174 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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Bedaphors
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sleepyhypnagogic, chronotherapy, clinomania, condorm, librocubicularist, matutolypea, soporific, supine, decubitus, pandiculation, oscitancy, slugabed and 169 more...
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Words to Learn
GRE study time.
viscous, divestiture, gossamer, ponderous, sinuous, panegyric, concision, aria, propitiatory, wistful, salutary, ineluctable and 93 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Words from BBC Quiz
synechdoche, erudite, antonym, aestivate, aeolian, etiolated, inchoate, halcyon, exfoliant, ebullient, emollient, effluent and 14 more...
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lovely words
beloved, calm, coat, chamber, compass, crystalline, dire, duvet, depth, depths, delve, delved and 58 more...
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Ressalie's list
These are a few words that I have found to either sound strange or to be fairly useless.
bamboozle, brouhaha, codswallop, crapulence, donnybrook, flummox, fuddy-duddy, furbelow, hobbledehoy, hoosegow, inglenook, jackanapes and 45 more...
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Notepad
Things I want to remember for later.
recherche, tatterdemalion, lorgnette, hardihood, frippery, mountebank, gewgaw, slumbrous, spatterdashes, callithump, obfuscatory, supererogatory and 58 more...
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aesthetically pleasing words
osculations, ghost, whimsical, transcendent, picturesque, precocious, ephemeral, ethereal, colloquialism, aestivate, saturnine
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Cpuls's Words
a fortiori, abderian, abecedarian, ablate, abnegation, abnormous, abrade, abscess, abut, accimus, acclivity, accouchement and 18 more...
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clementine's list
weltschmerz, eidolon, thambos, supper, trinket, wish, accidia, der treppenwitz, das backpfeifenge..., weltanschauung, arcady, revolution and 47 more...
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Irresponsibilities
Ways to esquivaliate.
gongoozler, mollycoddle, eyeservice, luftmensch, peregrination, malinger, groak, lèche-vitrines, faineant, slugabed, layabout, ne'er-do-well and 18 more...
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Estivous for the Rest of Us
Summer words.
summer, summerize, summertime, summertide, summerhouse, summercamp, summer-fallow, summer-blooming, summer-flowering, summer-dried, summer-room, summer camp and 55 more...
Tweets
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johnmperry cf hibernate Jul 24, 2008