Usually means: Dormancy during hot, dry periods.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word aestivation:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. aestivation: Merriam-Webster
  2. aestivation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aestivation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aestivation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aestivation: Vocabulary.com
  6. aestivation: Wordnik
  7. aestivation: Wiktionary
  8. aestivation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. aestivation: Dictionary.com
  10. Aestivation (botany), Aestivation (disambiguation), Aestivation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Aestivation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. aestivation: Rhymezone
  13. Aestivation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. aestivation: FreeDictionary.org
  15. aestivation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. aestivation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aestivation: Encyclopedia

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

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See aestivations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (aestivation)

noun:  (biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
noun:  (botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
noun:  (obsolete) The spending or passing of a summer.

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