Noun aestivation has 2 senses
  1. estivation, aestivation - (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period
    --1 is a kind of dormancy, quiescence, quiescency
    Derived form: verb aestivate1
  2. estivation, aestivation - (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
    --2 is a kind of arrangement
    --2 is a part of flower bud
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