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# dormancy

«dormancy» in Mova's school dictionary: **alive but not active or growing, as in seeds waiting to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A time when a living thing is alive but not active or growing, as in seeds waiting to sprout or animals hibernating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormancy/#m1)

2) A time when a volcano or other thing is quiet but could become active again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormancy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, seeds stay in dormancy until there is water and warmth; trees are dormant in winter; some animals hibernate. In geography, a volcano in dormancy has not erupted for a long time but may erupt again. Phrases: «period of dormancy», «break dormancy».

### examples

- The seeds stayed in dormancy until the spring rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormancy/#x1)
- Trees lose their leaves and enter dormancy in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormancy/#x2)
- The volcano woke up after centuries of dormancy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormancy/#x3)
- Bears are in a kind of dormancy during winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormancy/#x4)
- Cold weather helps some bulbs break their dormancy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormancy/#x5)
- After years of dormancy, the old club started meeting again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormancy/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: dormant. Comes from French «dormir», to sleep. A dormant volcano is not the same as an extinct one: extinct means it is not expected to erupt again.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dormancy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormancy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.