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third-person singular simple present estivates, present participle estivating, simple past and past participle estivated
(intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months. quotations examples
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