xiū​mián HSK7

dormant (biology)

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dormant (biology) verb
referring to a state of suspended biological activity or growth in organisms such as plants or seeds

Many plants go into a state of dormancy during the cold winter.

dormant (volcano) verb
referring to a volcano that is currently inactive but has the potential to erupt again

Mount Fuji is considered a dormant volcano.

hibernate verb
a computing mode that saves the current system state to the hard drive and powers down

You can set your computer to sleep mode to save power.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.25 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.24 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

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