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Definition of Estivate
1. Verb. Sleep during summer. "Certain animals estivate"
Generic synonyms: Catch Some Z's, Kip, Log Z's, Sleep, Slumber
Derivative terms: Aestivation, Estivation
Antonyms: Hibernate, Hibernate
Definition of Estivate
1. Verb. (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Estivate
1. to spend the summer [v -VATED, -VATING, -VATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estivate
Literary usage of Estivate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"... built of azure-tinted marble, the abode of Winter, that old man we see in the
almanac, — his shanty, as if he had a design to estivate with us. ..."
2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... and distract enemies th arc «ni their tracks. Many animals do many things that
man can not. Th II.IM- better homing instincts, estivate, hibernate, ..."
3. Thoreau's Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Raymond Macdonald Alden (1910)
"... built of azure-tinted marble, the abode of Winter, that old man we see in the
almanac,— his shanty, as if he had a design to estivate with us. ..."
4. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"... in other words, (estivate— looked every day more and more dingy ; and it was
not until well on in the wet season, or even at the beginning of the dry, ..."
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