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hibernation
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WordNet
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n. the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals the act of retiring into inactivity; "he emerged from his hibernation to make ...
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Hibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in endotherms . Hibernation refers to a season of heterothermy that is characterized by low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate. Although traditionally reserved ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Latin hibernationem (nominative hibernatio ) "the action of passing the winter," noun of action from past participle stem of hibernare "to winter, pass the winter, occupy winter quarters;" related to hiems "winter," from PIE *gheim- "snow, winter" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hibernation \Hi`ber*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. hibernation.] The act or state of hibernating. --Evelyn.
Usage examples of hibernation.
He certainly did his best to make up for his hibernation during the other six months in the year.
Or life gone underground, gone into hibernation, as happened in deep, foodless winter.
Now, in April, in the spring thaw, the liquidy black muck would be stirring into life after its long winter hibernation.
But at least by now the treekies and the Beguilers would have gone into hibernation for the winter.
In Europe, the brimstone is a harbinger of spring, often emerging from its winter hibernation under dead leaves to revel in the countryside while there is still snow upon the ground.
But if Panne spent too much time in hibernation, brain damage would begin to occur.
The saltwater ice would have melted, releasing the plankton from hibernation, and giving us a small percentage of salt mixed in the freshwater.
Rohan understood enough about hibernation to realize that this temperature was too high for a reversible death, and on the other hand, too low for hypothermal sleep.
The evidence, however, points in the other direction: In experiments performed by the American neurophysiologist Ralph Gerard at the University of Michigan, hamsters were taught to run a simple maze and then chilled almost to the freezing point in a refrigerator, a kind of induced hibernation.
Baxter Bay was a summer tourist spot, but it was also a working fishing village, and unlike Rehoboth Beach, it was not a town in hibernation.
For example, the adolescent ursoids of Vagabond may very shortly go into hibernation.
He certainly did his best to make up for his hibernation during the other six months in the year.
And these communities get larger after snakes, the local top predator of voles, go into hibernation.
The aspens turned yellow on the high slopes and the snow came, ending trapping and sending the tiny rodents which die of bubonic plague, and sometimes carry it dormant in their bodies, into the winter-long sleep of hibernation.
To Colleen, when she drove through the village and saw the dark windows and empty streets, it appeared as though the world around her had gone into hibernation.