Usually means: Temporary suspension of development, dormancy.
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  1. diapause: Merriam-Webster
  2. diapause: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diapause: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diapause: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diapause: Wordnik
  6. diapause: Wiktionary
  7. diapause: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. diapause: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. diapause: Dictionary.com
  10. Diapause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. diapause: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diapause: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. diapause: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. diapause: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Diapause: HYPP Zoology
  2. Biological Control (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (diapause)

noun:  (biology, entomology, ichthyology) A temporary pause in the growth and development of an organism due to adverse environmental conditions (especially in insects and in the embryos of many of the oviparous species of fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes)
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo diapause.

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