冬眠

Meaning

1. nvsvi
   hibernation; winter sleep; torpor

Example sentences

• どうして人間は冬眠しないのですか？

  Why don't people hibernate?

• 冬眠の目的を考えれば、冬の食料の少ない季節を何とか乗り切ろうとした生物の適応だと思うのです。

  If you consider the objective of hibernation, I think it's the response of animals trying to somehow survive the winter season with its lack of food.

• 乳酸菌はかなりしぶとい菌で、冷凍しても単に冬眠するだけで、解凍すればそのまま復活させることができます。

  Lactic-acid bacilli are such unyielding bacteria that, even if frozen, they would simply hibernate and can restore themselves as if they came back to life.