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What does overwinter mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To keep or preserve for the winter.
  2. (intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
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Their above-ground parts die back, but their roots overwinter, and the plants resprout in the spring.
At least 50,000 snakes overwinter in these dens every year, dispersing into the surrounding muskeg swampland during summer.
The armyworm probably does not overwinter in Nebraska, but reinvades the northern part of its range each spring.
Take cuttings of tender perennials and annuals that you want to overwinter.
Purchase starts each spring, or overwinter potted plants in a greenhouse or sunporch.
It was very nice indeed but I have to fight the urge to be TOO tidy, so the wee bugs and beasties have somewhere to overwinter.

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