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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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The armyworm probably does not overwinter in Nebraska, but reinvades the northern part of its range each spring.
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.
Take cuttings of tender perennials and annuals that you want to overwinter.
Their above-ground parts die back, but their roots overwinter, and the plants resprout in the spring.
Some species overwinter near the roots of weeds such as stickweed, plantain, and fleabane.
More wireworms and white grubs have been observed and increased numbers of dingy cutworms, which overwinter here, are likely.

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