Definition of Estivations

1. Noun. (plural of estivation) ¹

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Definition of Estivations

1. estivation [n] - See also: estivation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Estivations

estimated tax
estimated tax return
estimates
estimating
estimation
estimations
estimative
estimator
estimators
estival
estivate
estivated
estivates
estivating
estivation
estivations (current term)
estivator
estivators
estivoautumnal
estoc
estocs
estoile
estoiles
estop
estoppage
estoppages
estopped
estoppel
estoppel by deed
estoppels

Literary usage of Estivations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"Another volume equally interesting to scholars is Theodore Bent's " The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland," a record of estivations and explorations, 1891—92, ..."

2. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"To prevent future flooding from abandon ings, plans and cross sections of estivations that are to be abandoned 1 made. In approaching old workings long ..."

3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"It is simply impossible that such estivations should have escaped official notice. Nor was there any reason why the Christians ..."

4. A Manual of physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1905)
"... estivations). Life-history of the Corpuscles.—The corpuscles of the blood, like the body itself, fulfil the allotted round of life, and then die. ..."

5. Botany by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1881)
"4. Open, when they grow quite apart, neither overlapping nor touching (petals of mignonette). x—v^ />— ^ \ 0 FIG. 46. — ./estivations: a, imbricate; t, ..."

6. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1876)
"... -estivations.—At the meeting of the Linnean Society (June 1, 1876), the Rev. G. Henslow read a paper on "Floral /Estivation?," in which he explained the ..."

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