[f. ESTIVATE v. + -OR.] An animal that estivates or passes the summer in a state of torpor.
1883. J. G. Wood, in Sunday Mag., 675/2. They search the dry bed of the river, dig up the buried estivators and live on them.
[f. ESTIVATE v. + -OR.] An animal that estivates or passes the summer in a state of torpor.
1883. J. G. Wood, in Sunday Mag., 675/2. They search the dry bed of the river, dig up the buried estivators and live on them.