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Estivation

(Science: zoology) a dormant state involving vastly lowered metabolism which certain animals enter in order to survive hot weather.

(Science: botany) refers to the arrangement of sepals and petals or their lobes in an unexpanded flower bud.

Compare: vernation. (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens.(zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period.