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