Definitions | aestivation |
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- (obsolete) the spending or passing of a summer
- (zoology) spending a summer in a state of reduced metabolic activity; the summer version of hibernation
- (botany) the arrangement of the parts of a flower inside a bud
Etymology: Formed from Latin aestivare, from aestus "heat".
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