overwintering
Meaning of overwintering
verb
- To keep or preserve for the winter.
It is best to overwinter tender plants indoors.
- To spend the winter (in a particular place).
Insects may overwinter in fallen fruit if it is not removed.
- The action of overwintering
- The survival of an infectious agent or its vector through the winter, during which time it does not infect a host
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Hyphenation of overwintering
over-win-ter-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
- overwintering is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Translation of overwintering
- German: Überwinterung
- Spanish: hibernar
- French: hivernage
- Italian: svernamento
- Portuguese: invernada
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