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Hibernating

adjective
1.
In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation.  Synonyms: dormant, torpid.  "A hibernating bear" , "Torpid frogs"





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"Hibernating" Quotes from Famous Books



... thermometer goes (as it does go) away - away below zero, till it can be seen no more by the eye of man - not the thermometer, which is still perfectly visible, but the mercury, which curls up into the bulb like a hibernating bear; you should also see the lad who 'does chores' for us, with his red stockings and his thirteen year old face, and his highly manly tramp into the room; and his two alternative answers to all questions about the weather: either 'Cold,' or with a really lyrical movement of the voice, 'LOVELY ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
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... to take lessons from the bears and practise hibernating. But, like them, he would no doubt be very ...
— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn
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Words linked to "Hibernating" :   biological science, biology, asleep


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