DIAPAUSE


Meaning of DIAPAUSE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈdī-ə-ˌpȯz ]

noun

Etymology: Greek diapausis pause, from diapauein to pause, from dia- + pauein to stop

Date: 1893

: a period of physiologically enforced dormancy between periods of activity

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