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- noun A
cryptobiotic response to a decrease intemperature .
Etymologies
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cryo- + -biosis
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Examples
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During the sunless winters they freeze, a suspended state called cryobiosis.
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Tardigrades have five routes which they employ to enter latency: encystment, anoxybiosis, cryobiosis, osmobiosis and anhydrobiosis.
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