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hibernate, v.|ˈhaɪbəneɪt|
Also hy-.
[f. L. hībernāt-, ppl. stem of hībernā-re to winter, f. hīberna winter quarters, hībernus wintry.]
1. intr. To winter; to spend the winter in some special state suited to resist it; said esp. of animals that pass the winter in a state of torpor. transf. Of persons: To winter in a milder locality.
a1802E. Darwin cited in Webster (1828). 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) II. 349 It is probable that some insects of almost every order hybernate in the egg state. 1827Butterfly Collector's Vade-M. 115 This species hybernates in the perfect state and sometimes survives the winter. 1865Pall Mall G. 4 Oct. 10 There are now positively no places on the shores of the Mediterranean where invalids can hybernate cheaply and comfortably.
2. fig.
a. Of persons: To remain in a torpid or inactive state.
b. Of things: To lie dormant.
1829Southey Sir T. More I. 39 Inclination would lead me to hibernate during half the year. 1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 305 The unsettled questions are hybernating, probably to bud and burgeon again at some future season. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 94 The public institution in which he hibernated (so to speak) during the other three hundred and sixty-four days of the year.
Hence ˈhibernating vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈhiberˌnator, an animal that hibernates.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 766/2 In the sleep of the hibernating animal, the respiration is..impaired. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 395 Propagated by budding from marginal clefts, and by autumnal hybernating bulbils. 1883Sunday Mag. 674 The Faurde is really one of the hibernators, like our own hedgehog. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 262 ‘Hibernating gland’, a gland found in many Rodentia, Chiroptera, and Insectivora. |