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estivate (ES-tuh-vayt) verb, also aestivate
To pass the summer in a dormant state. [From Latin aestivatus, past participle of aestivare, to reside during the summer.] "An occasional Texas tortoise ambles through this unique subtropical forest, and spiral-shaped `Rabdotus' snails estivate through the warm summer months on the trunks of the trees." John Tveten and Gloria Tveten, Birds And Butterflies Among Amenities of New Valley Inn, The Houston Chronicle, Mar 19, 1999. "If the self's immutability can bear a hazy long hiatus, estivate, vanish, die - and stay the same -- what were the months and years of pain?" Eric Colburn, The Long Poem, Literary Review (Madison, N.J.), Spring 2001. This week's theme: less-known counterparts of everyday words. Hibernate is the winter equivalent of today's word. ............................................................................ There is a pleasure sure, in being mad, which none but madmen know. -John Dryden, poet and dramatist (1631-1700) Subscribe: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscribe.html Unsubscribe: http://wordsmith.org/awad/unsubscribe.html Change address: http://wordsmith.org/awad/address-change.html Gift subscription: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/estivate.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/estivate.ram
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