Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of spending or passing the summer.
- n. Zoology A state of dormancy or torpor during the summer.
- n. Botany The arrangement of flower parts in the bud.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of passing the summer.
- n. Specifically In zoology, the summer sleep of certain animals, as mollusks; the act of falling into a more or less permanent condition of sleep or dormant state in summer.
- n. In botany, prefloration; the disposition of the parts of a flower in the bud.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of aestivation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period
- n. (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
Examples
“This is a state called estivation; its like hibernation, but its triggered by dry and hot conditions instead of cold.”
“In my estivation, I conclude that Mother Nature is pissed about getting deep drilled and this heat is just a reminder of who is in charge.”
“During hibernation in winter and estivation in summer, animals in burrows have greatly reduced metabolic processes.”
“On the under story, towards the garden, let it be turned to a grotto, or a place of shade, or estivation.”
“In the evenings, while they force down obligatory eight-course gastronomies prepared by celebrity chefs at Relais & Chateaux resorts, we contentedly order the plat du jour at a little bistro not far from our humble two-star hotel -- simple economies that help make our vacation savings last our four-week estivation.”
“But tell me, please; have studies been done that indicate how long it is possible for various snails to remain in a state of estivation?”
“I haven't looked into this at all -- what are the confirmed records for length of estivation?”
“As undergraduates approach the LSAT, as 1Ls matriculate, as professors end their collective estivation, Jurisdynamics offers this wish for the coming academic year.”
The mathematics of TrueColor (and what it has to do with law and legal education)
“Yet they were not sleeping, had not suddenly opted for instant estivation as opposed to trying to kill the three people they had chased into the water.”
“Was pleasantly surprised to see moonfl0wer there after her previous announcement of estivation for today.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘estivation’.
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Sci-tech
cicatrix, senescence, varicose, gestalt, glossolalia, synesthesia, hypolactasia, hemoglobin, ametabolic, eutrophic, eutrophication, cryptid and 35 more...
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Not quite love
prolix, pleonastic, senescence, autochthonous, loup, pronk, onomatopoeia, magisterial, rixatrix, esurient, blowsabella, crapulence and 69 more...
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....the prison library
// god mandated attempt to realign with the timeless forces of the universe via remastered locution //
desultory, dénouement, demesne, dalliance, chatoyant, antechamber, akimbo, cacography, germane, cuboid, miasma, mordant and 89 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
anacoluthon, defenestration, hypnopomp, hypnagogue, idioglossia, panopticon, tatterdemalion, abalone, caltrop, miasma, paroxysm, smalt and 491 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Vocab List 2
bruit, smite, malapropism, tricorn, tenebrous, mawkish, disjunctive, mammon, lothario, embonpoint, pabulum, pother and 148 more...
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Words of the Dying Earth
Tales of the Dying Earth is a 2002 anthology volume featuring four novels by Jack Vance: The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous.
Throughou...deodar, deodand, pelgrane, leucomorph, blister-bush, russet, black burdock, gunmetal, spatterlight, carrack, concertina, terce and 280 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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word set8
dolmen, cairn, penetralia, dovetailed, draftsmanship, gestalt, dingbat, tenebrosity, squash racquets, dogleg, prurience, deflowering and 68 more...
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Lee's List
Words I like, and should try to use more often.
insipid, laconic, clandestine, quizzical, endeavor, sanguine, crestfallen, apocryphal, purloin, moribund, facetious, rancor and 68 more...
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Echo
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ethos, ellipsis, eudaimonia, egregious, eidolon, effulgent, eventide, emmet, epicureanism, eponym, errata, encore and 41 more...
Tweets
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mollusque *Rubs eyes* Aug 10, 2010
ruzuzu The summer sleep of mollusks (among other things). Aug 10, 2010