NOUN
- (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period
- (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
How To Use aestivation In A Sentence
- I would like to find a cave, and then curled to the inside to start peace of mind to sleep, why not aestivation ah, there should be hibernating, and estivation.
- Do they keep adding layers to their cocoons during the entire aestivation period? Archive 2006-04-01
- During aestivation in the lab, the oxygen consumption rate of Cyclorana cultripes fell significantly by 70%. Archive 2006-04-01
- I suspect there may be other reasons for group aestivation. Archive 2006-07-01
- I may remark, that the aestivation of Kydia is scarcely valvate. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- During winter months and aestivation periods, mussels will burrow into the substrate until only the apertures are protruding.
- Tagetes, _Sud Buruk_, is a curious genus, on account of its simple tubular involucrum, very entire and pappus florets, conduplicate in aestivation, all florets faeminine are ligulate; are the folded up ones representations of the males? Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- The period of aestivation is around eight months, though some experts claim that they can remain underground for more than five years.
- Tagetes, _Sud Buruk_, is a curious genus, on account of its simple tubular involucrum, very entire and pappus florets, conduplicate in aestivation, all florets faeminine are ligulate; are the folded up ones representations of the males? Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- Aestivation of the calyx is cochlear descending, which is a new character within Ingeae.
