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plural hibernacula
(zoology) The place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter. quotations
Aeolus Cave, which is set into a wooded hillside in Dorset, Vermont, is believed to be the largest bat hibernaculum in New England; it is estimated that before white-nose hit, nearly three hundred thousand bats—some from as far away as Ontario and Rhode Island—came there to spend the winter.
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 10, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company
(botany) A bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period. examples