dormant
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4.0
- adjective
- /ˈdɔrmənt/
:
dormido
- In winter, many plants remain dormant, conserving energy until the warmer months.
- dormant volcano
- dormant plants
- long dormant
Well, we're talking about moving, moving plants that are dormant and the best time to do that.
- Well, we're talking about moving, moving plants that are dormant and the best time to do that.
- And they are actually dormant bare root stock.
- But I was like a volcano, dormant, I'm afraid.
- And so these seeds that look just like a little Pebble or something are complete living Organism in a dormant state.
- Turns out that these seeds are complete living organisms that are in a dormant state and nature from the beginning of time.
- And then it stayed dormant for a while until people started reading that book and got very excited about it.
- But as you go into that dormant phase, which for many plants is going to be fall, winter, less light, colder, it's going to need less of all of those things.
- So timing wise, it's ideal to do grafting when the plant is dormant before the buds start to swell and things leaf out.
- During the day they lie dormant, but at night they come out to feast.
- Why say he dormant sloth could be an actual sloth?
Examples
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When the planet is cool, life exists but lies dormant, like perennials in the ground back home, waiting for spring.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the absence of water, some bacteria, including spore formers, may remain in a dormant state for several million years.
Academic text (2000) -
Anytime the plant is dormant, you can move a dormant plant.
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And that starts to rise again during the dormant winter season in the Northern Hemisphere.
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During the day they lie dormant, but at night they come out to feast.
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Well, in Mexico, they found a frog which they think lay dormant for two million years.
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During the winter, grass goes dormant and cannot recover from the damage done by grazing livestock.
Academic text (2007) -
The virus can remain dormant for periods of time and then periodically reactivate.
Academic text (2005) -
There they will remain in hibernation, still and dormant, until the spring sun warms the soil enough to stir them from their slumber.
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The island's long-dormant volcano, reclassified as active, has shown considerable unrest in recent months.
Synonyms
3
2.7
Not active now but likely to start again later
1
8.2
To move slowly and have little energy or interest
Sleeping through the winter to save energy
Antonyms
Compounds
How Dormant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dormant comes from the Latin word dormire, which means 'to sleep', and is the same root as dormitory ('place to sleep'). So a dormant volcano or geyser is like something 'sleeping'—inactive now but able to wake and become active again.