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noun 
  1. (obsolete) the spending or passing of a summer
  2. (zoology) spending a summer in a state of reduced metabolic activity; the summer version of hibernation
  3. (botany) the arrangement of the parts of a flower inside a bud
Etymology: Formed from Latin aestivare, from aestus "heat".

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