estivate
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Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/
Verb
    
estivate (third-person singular simple present estivates, present participle estivating, simple past and past participle estivated)
- (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
- Coordinate term: hibernate
 -  2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:- Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.
 
 
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Italian
    
    
Verb
    
estivate
- inflection of estivare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
 
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