aestivation

Definitions

1. A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
   countable, uncountable
2. The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
   countable, uncountable
3. The spending or passing of a summer.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

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