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estivate

VERB
  1. sleep during summer
    certain animals estivate

How To Use estivate In A Sentence

  • The Australian Alps are also known for the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) which aestivate in the mountains each summer. Australian Alps montane grasslands
  • If, improbably, he had thought that private affairs could have first attention and public business be left to aestivate the summer through, developments on the frontier soon would have aroused him. Washington
  • Some crocodilians also estivate.
  • During the dry Mediterranean summers most Albinaria species aestivate attached to rocks and their unintentional human-assisted transport on building materials have been documented. Archive 2006-01-01
  • According to the paper, some species of these frogs may aestivate in the wild for more than a year waiting for the rains. Archive 2006-04-01
  • The toads must aestivate during the summer, burrowing down into the soil to survive the heat.
  • In areas where the climate is the Mediterranean type, land snails aestivate during the dry and hot summers and are active during the fall, the mild winters and the spring. Archive 2006-01-01
  • Many crayfish flee the sun downward, tunneling after the subsiding water table until they reach moist mud in which to estivate.
  • Sirens are known to aestivate when in habitats subject to drought.
  • These snails aestivate on the surface fully exposed to the sun. Archive 2006-04-01
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