estivation

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estivation (enc)

Noun	1.	estivation - (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period aestivation zoological science, zoology - the branch of biology that studies animals dormancy, quiescence, quiescency - a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy"
	2.	estivation - (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens aestivation botany, phytology - the branch of biology that studies plants arrangement - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement" flower bud - a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop

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