Definition of "estivated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of estivate. (verb)

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• "Seas were less affected than land, and many shore-based animals that ate marine species neither hibernated nor estivated."
• "Water pressure dropped with the level; lower temperatures meant a higher equilibrium concentration of dissolved oxygen, which affected the fairly shallow depths at which the People estivated; current shifted, altering the local content of minerals raised from the ocean bed."