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What does estivate mean?

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  1. (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
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The larvae complete their feeding in less than two weeks and then estivate in cocoons, which they construct in the ground.
Many crayfish flee the sun downward, tunneling after the subsiding water table until they reach moist mud in which to estivate.
When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor.

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