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Hibernating   Listen
adjective
hibernating  adj.  In a state of suspended animation; of animals that sleep most of the winter. (prenominal)
Synonyms: dormant, torpid.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hibernating" Quotes from Famous Books



... again every twelve months, whether we will or no, and are obliged to live in the same house through it all. It's really a desperate matter. I've been to the ant and the beasts and the birds. They recommend hibernating or migration, but our wings are too short for the one, our fur too thin ...
— Homes And How To Make Them • Eugene Gardner

... as she answered, "Let us invite the children of our hibernating friends. I think that will be pleasanter. We'll invite Auntie Cinnamon's children, and Uncle Brown Bear's family, and the Porcupine twins, and the Field Mice children, and the young Musk-rats. If you will do the inviting, I will make blackberry jam and honey cakes ...
— Little Bear at Work and at Play • Frances Margaret Fox



Words linked to "Hibernating" :   biology, asleep, biological science



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