"Prefloration" is a word in ENGLISH
Aestivation.
You are privileged if you know that there is God, the only creator of Heaven and Earth because not everyone gets to understand that whist still alive.
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A solider stationed in the South Pacific wrote to his wife in the States to please send him a harmonica to occupy his free time and keep his mind off of the local women. The wife complied and sent the best one she could find, along with several dozen lesson and music books.Rotated back home, he rushed to their home and through the front door. "Oh darling" he gushed, "Come here. Let me look at you. Let me hold you! Let's have a fine dinner out, then make love all night. I've missed your lovin' so much."The wife, keeping her distance, said, "All in good time lover. First, let's hear you play that harmonica."
Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases.
Read the complete definitionTo pass the summer in a state of torpor.
Read the complete definitionTo spend the summer.
Read the complete definitionThe state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.
Read the complete definitionThe arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration.
Read the complete definitionFolded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or aestivation.
Read the complete definitionArranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation.
Read the complete definitionRolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.
Read the complete definitionA membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, …
Read the complete definitionSame as Aestival, Aestivate, etc.
Read the complete definitionLying over each other in regular order, so as to \"break joints,\" like tiles or shingles on a roof, the …
Read the complete definitionHaving the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in aestivation.
Read the complete definitionHaving induplicate sepals or petals in aestivation.
Read the complete definitionRolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation.
Read the complete definitionHaving the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the …
Read the complete definitionA quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2.
Read the complete definitionMeeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of …
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