dormant 的定义
- lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- in a state of rest or inactivity; inoperative; in abeyance: The project is dormant for the time being.
- Biology. in a state of minimal metabolic activity with cessation of growth, either as a reaction to adverse conditions or as part of an organism's normal annual rhythm.
- undisclosed; unasserted: dormant musical talent.
- Geology. not having erupted within the last 10,000 years, but having the probability of erupting again.Compare active, extinct.
- Botany. temporarily inactive: dormant buds; dormant seeds.
- applied to a plant during a period of dormancy: a dormant spray.
- Heraldry. represented as lying with its head on its forepaws, as if asleep.
dormant 近义词
inactive; sleeping
更多dormant例句
- Hike the trail along the southwest rim of a dormant volcano at Death Valley’s Ubehebe Crater, and meander along Artist’s Drive, a nine-mile road that passes through hillsides colorfully tinted with volcanic sediment.
- Demo stations for “Death Stranding” and “Super Mario Maker 2” were dusty and dormant.
- However, many of those paltry 51 genes contained in the tiger rattlesnake’s genome seemed to be dormant.
- Others use them as refuges when the creatures need to go dormant during the hot dry summer.
- The Balbiani body is believed to protect mitochondria during the oocyte’s dormant phase by clustering a majority of the mitochondria together with long amyloid protein fibers.
- In addition to its million-and-a-half year dormant stretch, the fault line is nearly impossible to see from above.
- We reported on the efforts of Dr. Susan Harkema, who is working to “wake up” dormant spinal cord neurons.
- There was a Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi during this period, but it was largely dormant.
- In some patients, symptoms can lie dormant anywhere from seven days to eight weeks.
- Is there an innate, yet dormant capacity within the elderly to actually reverse their ailments if only given the right signals?
- The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
- And would some measure of great success won on those lines stir the dormant greatness in him?
- This is a great improvement over the secret and dormant methods of getting the capital needed for partnership purposes.
- A few of the volcanoes in the latter region have only recently become extinct; a few may be only dormant.
- In a row stood five large, glass-mounted incubators; behind the glass doors lay, in dormant majesty, five enormous eggs.