estivates
Meaning of estivates
verb, 3rd person present
(of an insect, fish, or amphibian) spend a hot or dry period in a prolonged state of torpor or dormancy.
early 17th century (in the sense ‘pass the summer’): from Latin aestivat-, from aestivare ‘spend the summer’, from aestus ‘heat’.
Information about estivates
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of estivates is: estivate.
- Languages in which estivates is used:
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Hyphenation of estivates
es-ti-vates
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- estivates is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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