hibernation

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hibernate
verb[ I ]
us/ˈhɑɪ·bərˌneɪt/
(of some animals) to spend the winter months in a state like sleep

hibernation

noun[ U ]us/ˌhɑɪ·bərˈneɪ·ʃən/

Examples of hibernate

hibernate
He wanted to study this problem by comparing the brains of hibernating animals, during sleep and awake periods.
In winter the metabolic rate is depressed and the fish hibernate just above freezing level.
Transmission to definitive hosts only occurs at times when the ants are not hibernating.
In hibernating animals, for instance, metabolism is kept to a minimum : respiration and excretion occur at a very low rate.
These pre-reproductive weevils feed for a period before hibernating in the ground.
During such dust storms, the rover is expected to hibernate to conserve energy.
Such changes play a part in the survival of plants and hibernating animals and bacteria during the winter.
In the other broods either all the larvae developed actively or 1 to 3 larvae remained hibernating.
The global rates of protein synthesis have been determined to be profoundly reduced in hibernating animals.
The percentage of hibernating larvae was especially high in pot no. 218 (21 larvae out of 52).
Nevertheless, the survival of the metacercariae in hibernating ants plays an important role in the epidemiology of dicrocoeliosis.
Because the hibernating mammal arouses periodically from torpor throughout the hibernation season, the ability to function at euthermic temperatures must be maintained continuously.
The ability to hibernate is the most dramatic example of phenotypic plasticity displayed by mammals.
I'd rather hibernate in a house for summer than aestivate in a house for winter.
The parasitoid larvae hibernate in the host eggs and adults emerge next spring.
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