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hibernacle|ˈhaɪbənək(ə)l|
Also hy-.
[ad. L. hībernācul-um: see below. So in mod.F.]
A winter retreat; a hibernaculum.
1708Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 231 The Legions on their Hybernacles think. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. 17 note, What is in common language called a bulbous root, is by Linneus termed the Hybernacle or winter-lodge, of the young plant. 1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 736 All the other snug and airless depositories and hybernacles of life in the city of cities. |
