Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A restoring to life from a deathlike condition; resuscitation.
- noun A state of suspended animation, especially one in which certain aquatic invertebrates are able to survive long periods of drought.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Reanimation; resuscitation; recovery after suspended animation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A state of
suspended animation , especially during extremedrought ; the act of recovering from this state.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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During my anabiosis this morning I dreamt I was leaving work and reading.
Freewriting on Monologues joshenglish 2007
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John Hunter, supported by his experiments on _anabiosis_, hoped to prolong the life of man indefinitely by alternate freezing and thawing; and the Veronese Colonel Aless.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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The main idea of the Anabiosis is not the focus on anabiosis itself, but rather journeys to a far away world, and meditation upon cosmic space ... and upon the earth itself from the point of view of the black abyss.
unknown title 2009
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Therefore music about this subject is extremely eloquent: visions people sometimes get in anabiosis excite and carry them to the very edge of the universe, the place you have never planned to go to ... but will these visions return our consciousness back?
unknown title 2009
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Contact: starded starded. com/anabiosis. htm e-mail: starded@yandex.ru
unknown title 2009
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As the lakes freeze, only the smallest viruses stay in their liquid areas while bigger species fall into anabiosis in thick ice.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word anabiosis
JM supposes that anabiosis kicks in post election.
August 13, 2010