The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hybernate
Hybernacle \Hy*ber"na*cle\, Hybernate \Hy"ber*nate\, Hybernation \Hy`ber*na"tion\ See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.
Wiktionary
hybernate
vb. (obsolete spelling of hibernate English)
Usage examples of "hybernate".
It occurred to me that land-shells, when hybernating and having a membranous diaphragm over the mouth of the shell, might be floated in chinks of drifted timber across moderately wide arms of the sea.
And I found that several species did in this state withstand uninjured an immersion in sea-water during seven days: one of these shells was the Helix pomatia, and after it had again hybernated I put it in sea-water for twenty days, and it perfectly recovered.