(intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hibernate

simple past tense and past participle of hibernate

plural of hibernation

Irishly

(archaic) Hibernian; Irish.

(archaic) Hibernian; Irish.

(biology, sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.

present participle of hibernate

Something that hibernates.