Crossword-Solution: AESTIVATION 11 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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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.

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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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The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
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The old man had a great deal to say about "aestivation," as he called it, in opposition, as one might say, to hibernation.
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) 2004
Intramural aestivation, or town-life in summer, he would say, is a peculiar form of suspended existence, or semi-asphyxia.
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) 2004
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 AESTIVATION AN UNPUBLISHED POEM, BY MY LATE LATIN TUTOR IN candent ire the solar splendor flames; The foles, langueseent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the Give, anheling, wipes,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.
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 6 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2004
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.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The William Griffith 2005
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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 Various 2011
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