dormancy

In March 2012, unusually warm temperatures in Michigan caused vegetation to emerge from dormancy early, but then were subsequently destroyed by freezing weather in April.

The trees need that chill to induce dormancy, a frost-free spring to let the blossoms bloom and bees pollinate — though sour cherry trees are also self-pollinating.

Microbes surviving for millions of years in deep dormancy upend evolution.

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.