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Hibernating

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






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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



Words linked to "Hibernating" :   biological science, biology, asleep



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