Crossword-Solution: AESTIVATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aestivation | n. | The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation. |
| Aestivation | n. | The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “AESTIVATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Torpid state during the hot season | 1 answer |
| aestivation | 1 answer |
| the act of spending the summer in a state of torpor | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with AESTIVATION (5)
The old man had a great deal to say about "aestivation," as he called it, in opposition, as one might say, to hibernation.
Intramural aestivation, or town-life in summer, he would say, is a peculiar form of suspended existence, or semi-asphyxia.
Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much,-- Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content! AESTIVATION AN UNPUBLISHED POEM, BY MY LATE LATIN TUTOR IN candent ire the solar splendor flames; The foles, langueseent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the Give, anheling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous riper.
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? _22nd_.--To Janika Sung, seventeen miles: the country continues much the same.
When the parts of a whorl are placed in an exact circle, and are applied to each other by their edges only, without overlapping or being folded, thus resembling the valves of a seed-vessel, the aestivation is _valvate_ (fig.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1981).