Definition of Aestevation
Æs`ti*va"tion (&?;), n.
1. (Zoöl.) The state of torpidity induced
by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to
hibernation.
2. (Bot.) The arrangement of the petals in a
flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration.
Gray.
[Spelt also estivation.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (obsolete) the spending or passing of a summer
- (zoology) spending a summer in a state of reduced metabolic activity; the summer version of hibernation
- (botany) the arrangement of the parts of a flower inside a bud
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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