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Hibernating

adjective
1.
In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation.  Synonyms: dormant, torpid.  "A hibernating bear" , "Torpid frogs"


Hibernate

verb
(past & past part. hibernated; pres. part. hibernating)
1.
Sleep during winter.  Synonym: hole up.
2.
Be in an inactive or dormant state.





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"Hibernating" Quotes from Famous Books



... an infinite number of experiments while in this condition. One experimentalist, believing that cold was the cause of their curious condition, surrounded one with a freezing mixture, and froze it to death. By increasing the cold about another that was already hibernating, it was made to ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various
... supposed to be the fact that the salamander really does secrete from the pores of his body a milky juice, which when he is irritated is produced in considerable quantity, and would doubtless, for a few moments, defend the body from fire. Then it is a hibernating animal, and in winter retires to some hollow tree or other cavity, where it coils itself up and remains in a torpid state till the spring again calls it forth. It may therefore sometimes be carried with the fuel to the fire, and wake up only ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... we all have these hibernating serpents in our consciences, and nobody knows when the needful warmth may come that will wake them and make them lift their forked heads to sting. The whole landscape of my past life lies there behind the mists of apparent forgetfulness, and any light air of suggestion may sweep away the ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren
... good, you blamed hibernating deadbeats?" he asked the occupants of the bunks. "Turn out and get busy before I ...
— The Girl From Keller's - Sadie's Conquest • Harold Bindloss
... has been the subject of an infinite number of experiments while in this condition. One experimentalist, believing that cold was the cause of their curious condition, surrounded one with a freezing mixture, and froze it to death. By increasing the cold about another that was already hibernating, it was made to ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various


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