Definition of Hibernating

1. Adjective. In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation. "Torpid frogs"

Exact synonyms: Dormant, Torpid
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Asleep
Derivative terms: Dormancy, Dormancy, Torpidity, Torpidness

Definition of Hibernating

1. Verb. (present participle of hibernate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hibernating

1. hibernate [v] - See also: hibernate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hibernating

hib vaccine
hiba arborvitae
hibachi
hibachis
hibakusha
hibakushas
hibbingite
hibernacle
hibernacles
hibernacula
hibernaculum
hibernal
hibernate
hibernated
hibernates
hibernating
hibernating(a)
hibernating gland
hibernation
hibernations
hibernator
hibernators
hibernoma
hibiscus
hibiscuses
hibonite
hibonites
hic
hic Rhodus, hic salta
hicatee

Literary usage of Hibernating

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

1. The Mechanism of Evolution in Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower, Joseph Kumler Breitenbecher (1918)
"It was observed that hibernating beetles were inactive when first dug from the soil, and if the insects were moved to a warm room they soon began to crawl ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"THE RESPIRATION ON A Hibernating HEDGEHOG.—Herr Paul Bongers has made a series of experiments upon this subject. He compared the breathing of ..."

3. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1917)
"Animal placed in hibernating room, without food, at 12.00 M., November 11, 1915. Became torpid first November 16. Sacrificed November 20, at 10.30 AM Rectal ..."

4. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"The trees and shrubs which belong to northern climates have, also, exactly the peculiarity of the hibernating animals, while those of tropical regions ..."

5. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"... days and of hibernating females 134 days. The maximum number of young produced by any female was 142, reproduction being most rapid in July, ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The effect of extreme cold is to rouse the hibernating animal from its slumber; ... For the reasons given, all hibernating mammals take precautions against ..."

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