ANABIOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anabiosis mean? 

• ANABIOSIS (noun)
  The noun ANABIOSIS has 1 sense:

1. suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns

  Familiarity information: ANABIOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANABIOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("anabiosis" is a kind of...):

suspended animation (a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia)

Derivation:

anabiotic (of or related to the state of anabiosis)