hibernating in English

verb
1
(of an animal or plant) spend the winter in a dormant state.
Hedgehogs are active only at night, and some species hibernate in the winter.
synonyms:lie dormantlie torpidsleepoverwinter
adjective
verb

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1. 2 Hibernating animals survive the winter in suspended animation.

2. Tree snails are Aestivating (similar to hibernating) through the dry season

3. Synonyms for Aestivating include dormant, asleep, sleeping, dozing, napping, slumbering, hibernating, resting, comatose and reposing

4. Aestivating and hibernating snails require shelter, but the exact habitat attributes required for these functions are unknown.

5. At the same temperature the oxygen consumption of hibernating and aestivating Arianta arbustorum is the same.

6. Antonyms for Aestivating include hibernating, sleeping, wintering, overwintering, lying dormant, vegetating, hiding, immuring, holing up and lying torpid

7. Bogong: An Australian noctuid moth, Agrotis spina , which occurs in enormous numbers in Victoria, where the hibernating adults were eaten by the aborigines.

8. If you had borer damage last year, you probably have hibernating baby Borers lurking in your dirt; just like the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (don't fall asleep in the garden!)

9. The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) is a predator of hibernating bats in mine adits and caves in Ontario (Fenton, 1970) and mouse droppings and/or skulls (deer mouse or Keen's mouse, Peromyscus keeni) were found in 11 caves in the Weymer Creek area (Mather et al., 2000).

10. Carr (1940a) reported finding a two-toed Amphiuma in Florida during January that was "under two feet of sphagnum and mud" and was "apparently hibernating.¡± The capture rate of these salamanders in a central Florida lake was positively correlated with mean monthly water temperature; fewer animals were captured during the cooler winter