This is a state called estivation; its like hibernation, but its triggered by dry and hot conditions instead of cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

I haven't looked into this at all -- what are the confirmed records for length of estivation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I am sceptical of Brenda's story] Reference

On the under story, towards the garden, let it be turned to a grotto, or a place of shade, or estivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays] Reference

Was pleasantly surprised to see moonfl0wer there after her previous announcement of estivation for today.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Dancer] Reference

During hibernation in winter and estivation in summer, animals in burrows have greatly reduced metabolic processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adaptations of desert amphibians and reptiles] Reference

'By the time the Peacekeepers land, though, the Sun will be up and the nanomachines will go into estivation, won't they?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moonwar]

He found himself wondering if the Cocytans had perhaps traveled in the sphere in a state of suspended animation, or naturally induced estivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dig]

Yet they were not sleeping, had not suddenly opted for instant estivation as opposed to trying to kill the three people they had chased into the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowning World]

Cars were not so many that they put more than a tang into it, less than the aroma of the roast chestnut carts that were beginning to come out of estivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Patrolman]

As undergraduates approach the LSAT, as 1Ls matriculate, as professors end their collective estivation, Jurisdynamics offers this wish for the coming academic year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The mathematics of TrueColor (and what it has to do with law and legal education)] Reference

When the home planet once again swung away from its ferocious sun, gracile Haluk awakened from estivation and emerged from their protective shells to carry on their interrupted lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sagittarius Whorl]

But being evolved more for walking than swimming -- since two-thirds of their lives were spent ashore -- they were only moderately efficient sea carnivores and "found" it was best to retire into estivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Circus of Hells]

In the evenings, while they force down obligatory eight-course gastronomies prepared by celebrity chefs at Relais & Chateaux resorts, we contentedly order the plat du jour at a little bistro not far from our humble two-star hotel -- simple economies that help make our vacation savings last our four-week estivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [LETTER FROM FRANCE: CALL ME IN SEPTEMBER] Reference

What a glorious estivation this is turning out to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westword | Complete Issue] Reference

The dry season here is not excessive, nor is there any estivation, as in some tropical countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

On the under story, towards the garden, let it be turned to a grotto, or place of shade, or estivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [XLV. Of Building] Reference

During extreme climatic conditions, frogs enter into a resting state or dormancy, called as estivation.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Impertinently a barrette on muscadet and topside a gaga synchronal lomatia tippler to depersonalization the scolytidae of the estivation garboil in resale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

At the nature preserve, regular droughts sent the turtles into estivation (a warm-weather version of hibernation) for months at a time, while the suburban turtles managed to find enough water to remain active all year round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica] Reference

That said, so far as I can tell, I could think I was writing about the estivation patterns of pond frogs and somehow I’d still somehow be writing about love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances - Loaded Questions Interview] Reference

"Because" well, because if not for our presence on board your ship you'd still be asleep, or in forced estivation, or whatever your suspension process involves.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Codgerspace]

No semiannual estivation. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]