Usually means: Animals enter deep sleep, conserving energy.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word hibernates:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. hibernates: Merriam-Webster
  2. hibernates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hibernates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hibernate's, hibernates: Wordnik
  5. hibernates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hibernates: Wiktionary
  7. hibernates: Dictionary.com
  8. hibernates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. hibernates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hibernates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hibernates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See hibernate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hibernate)

verb:  (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
verb:  (intransitive) To live in seclusion.
verb:  (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
▸ Also see hibernate


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