aestivation

See also: æstivation

English

Alternative forms

• æstivation
• estivation

Etymology

Formed from Latin aestīvō, aestīvāre (“to spend or pass the summer in a place”), from aestīvus (“of or pertaining to summer”), from aestās (“summer”) +‎ -īvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌiːstɪˈveɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

aestivation (countable and uncountable, plural aestivations)

1. (biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
2. (botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
3. (obsolete) The spending or passing of a summer.
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building. XLV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 263:

     On the Vnder Story, tovvards the Garden, Let it be turned to a Grotta, or Place of Shade, or Eſtiuation.

Related terms

• aestivate

Translations

state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夏眠 (zh) (xiàmián)

• Finnish: estivaatio
• French: estivation (fr) f
• Georgian: ზაფხულის ძილი (zapxulis ʒili)
• German: Sommerschlaf m
• Greek: θερινή νάρκη f (theriní nárki)
• Japanese: 夏眠 (ja) (かみん, kamin)
• Portuguese: estivação f
• Russian: ле́тняя спя́чка f (létnjaja spjáčka), эстива́ция f (estivácija)
• Spanish: estivación (es) f
• Volapük: hitüpaslip

vernation of the parts of flower inside a bud; prefloration

• Finnish: silmuasento, vernaatio

(obsolete) spending or passing the summer

See also

• (inactivity): torpor