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dormancy
[ dawr-muhn-see ]
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Instead, he found that they developed erratically and sometimes experienced periods of dormancy before reawakening.
The result was a long dormancy in which many Democrats became uncomfortable with open expressions of faith.
It has now to be shewn that the germs of disease also retain their vital powers in a state of dormancy during a lengthened period.
The activity of the plague in London in 1563 made up for its dormancy in the years preceding.
A distinction of great importance from a physiological and a practical point of view is made between rest and dormancy in plants.
Men wonder at mummy-wheat germinating after a thousand years of dormancy.
In the locality of my study racers spend approximately half the year in winter dormancy.
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