estivate
verb/ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/
1
To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
- Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
- Derived terms
- estival, estivation