aestivate
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
To pass the summer or a dry season in a dormant state.
Lungfish aestivate in the baked mud, sealed in mucus until the rains return.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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