2. Noun. (medicine) The survival of an infectious agent or its vector through the winter, during which time it does not infect a host ¹
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Definition of Overwintering
1. overwinter [v] - See also: overwinter
Medical Definition of Overwintering
1. Persistence of an infectious agent in its vector for extended periods, such as the cooler winter months, during which the vector has no opportunity to be reinfected or to infect another host. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwintering
Literary usage of Overwintering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-mine, with an by Nathan Haskell Dole (1922)
"overwintering ON SPITSBERGEN FATE OF MEN LEFT ON THE ISLAND. ... THE FIRST
overwintering. In 1630, the same captain, in command of the ship Salutation, ..."
2. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society, British Soviet Friendship Society (1922)
"Much damage was done to peaches and apples by the overwintering beetles of the
two species, but the new generation, which began to mature in early July, ..."
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