The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hibernaculum \Hi`ber*nac"u*lum\, n. [See Hibernacle.]
(Bot.) A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.
(Zo["o]l.) A little case in which certain insects pass the winter.
Winter home or abiding place.
--J. Burroughs.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context zoology English) The place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter 2 (context botany English) A bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period.
Wikipedia
Hibernaculum (hi-buhr-NAK-yuh-luhm) (Latin, "tent for winter quarters") can refer to:
- Hibernaculum (zoology), the location chosen by an animal for hibernation. Commonly this may be a hibernating mammal or insect.
- Hibernaculum (botany), a bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period.
- Hibernaculum (song), a single by Mike Oldfield from his The Songs of Distant Earth album, 1994
- Hibernaculum (album). by the band Earth, 2007
Hibernaculum is a studio album by the American musical group Earth, though acknowledged as an EP by the band. All of the songs, except for "A Plague of Angels", are older Earth songs that were re-recorded in the country-influenced style of Hex. The album includes a DVD with a documentary by Seldon Hunt, called "Within the Drone". Both "Coda Maestoso in F (Flat) Minor" and a "A Plague of Angels" appear in the documentary, "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia".
"Hibernaculum" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1994. It is from the album The Songs of Distant Earth. "Moonshine" is a remix of the final part of Tubular Bells II.
It charted at number 47 in the UK Singles Chart.
The theme from the single's B-side, "The Song of the Boat Men", was later reused in another song called "Moonshine" on Oldfield's 2014 rock album, Man on the Rocks.
A hibernaculum plural form: hibernacula (Latin, "tent for winter quarters") is a place of abode in which a creature seeks refuge, such as a bear using a cave to overwinter. Insects may hibernate to survive the winter. The word can be used to describe a variety of shelters used by various kinds of animals, for instance, bats, marmots and snakes.
talus cave bear gulch e18.jpg|Bear Gulch Cave provides a home to a colony of Townsend's big-eared bats Hotel Spiers.JPG|An artificial hibernaculum or 'Bug Hotel'
Hibernaculum (plural hibernacula) is the term often applied to a winter bud of certain aquatic plants, such as the bladderworts ( Utricularia). The buds are heavier than water, and, being developed at the approach of cold weather, they become detached, sink to the bottom of the pond, and thus survive the winter. In the spring, they enlarge, developing air spaces, rise to the surface, and reproduce their species.
Certain terrestrial plants also form hibernacula. These include some temperate sundews ( Drosera) such as D. anglica, D. filiformis, D. intermedia, D. rotundifolia; and some temperate butterworts ( Pinguicula) such as P. balcanica, P. grandiflora, P. longifolia, and P. vulgaris.
Usage examples of "hibernaculum".
The hibernacula were becoming ever more popular despite medical advice that the freezing process probably wouldn't work successfully--and nobody could guarantee an uninterrupted power supply through the sunstorm anyhow, so that the big day might result in an unfortunate defrosting.
And Siobhan had projected gloomily that if things went pear-shaped--if civilization fell apart despite the shield's protection--the hibernacula would most likely serve the starving survivors as cellars of thawing meat.
Much of it was necessarily crude: beneath the London Ark huge hibernacula had been installed to preserve the zygotes of animals, insects, birds, and fish, and the seeds of plants from grasses to pine trees.