dormancy

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.