estivate ES-tuh-veyt verb to spend the summer, as at a - TopicsExpress



          

estivate ES-tuh-veyt verb to spend the summer, as at a specific place or in a certain activity. Zoology. to spend a hot, dry season in an inactive, dormant state, as certain reptiles, snails, insects, and small mammals. Quotes So as the people we knew back East die, or are institutionalized, or take themselves off to Tucson or Sarasota or Santa Barbara to estivate their last years away as we are doing here, our contacts here shrink, too. -- Wallace Stegner , The Spectator Bird , 1976 Hibernate. Or estivate. Depends on whether I do so in the winter or the summer. -- Ian Watson , Luckys Harvest , 1993
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 10:40:37 +0000

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