oversummer

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English

Etymology

over- +‎ summer

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Verb

oversummer (third-person singular simple present oversummers, present participle oversummering, simple past and past participle oversummered)

  1. (intransitive) To spend the summer (in a particular place or form).
    • 1976, Subodh K. Jain, Vernal Pools: Their Ecology and Conservation:
      The snails (Bakerilymnaea cockerelli) oversummer in the adult or near-adult morphology using a form of estivation.
    • 1998, D.G. Jones, The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases, →ISBN, page 336:
      Both powdery mildew and cereal rusts oversummer on volunteer crops in the asexual stage, infect the autumn-sown crop and, eventually, overwinter on the volunteers to infect the crops in spring (Zadoks, 1961).
    • 2010, Mark A. Colwell, Shorebird Ecology, Conservation, and Management, →ISBN, page 211:
      In the Pacific Golden-Plover, some individuals oversummer in the tropics as yearlings and 2-year olds (Johnson and Johnson 1983).
    • 2013, Alice Taylor, The Gift of a Garden, →ISBN:
      Dragged down in early winter from the top of the garden where they oversummer, they are placed on the front window sills looking sad and forlorn.

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