estivation
英 [ˌestɪ'veɪʃən] 美 [ˌestə'veɪʃən]

n.

夏眠；夏蛰；

英英释义

estivation[ ,i:sti'veiʃən, ,es- ]

• n.
  • (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period

    同义词：aestivation

  • (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens

    同义词：aestivation

权威例句

Estivation and Hibernation
Life in the slow lane: molecular mechanisms of estivation.
Physiological Capacity for Estivation of the Sonoran Mud Turtle, Kinosternon sonoriense
Comparison of hibernation, estivation and daily torpor in the edible dormouse, Glis glis.
Metabolic Depression During Estivation in the Australian Frogs, Neobatrachus and Cyclorana
Radiotelemetry Reveals Terrestrial Estivation in Sonoran Mud Turtles (Kinosternon sonoriense)
Glycolytic controls in estivation and anoxia: a comparison of metabolic arrest in land and marine molluscs.
Physiological and behavioral variation in estivation among mud turtles (Kinosternon spp.)
Energy and water flux during terrestrial estivation and overland movement in a freshwater turtle.
Metabolic Rate Depression and Biochemical Adaptation in Anaerobiosis, Hibernation and Estivation