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aestivation   (TTS Sound)

The noun aestivation has 2 senses

• estivation, aestivation -- ((zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period)


• estivation, aestivation -- ((botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens)