oversummer

To spend the summer (in a particular place or form).

Verb

  1. To spend the summer (in a particular place or form).
    • The snails (Bakerilymnaea cockerelli) oversummer in the adult or near-adult morphology using a form of estivation. - 1976, Subodh K. Jain, Vernal Pools: Their Ecology and Conservation:
    • 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). - 1998,...
    • In the Pacific Golden-Plover, some individuals oversummer in the tropics as yearlings and 2-year olds^([sic]) (Johnson and Johnson 1983). - 2010, Mark A. Colwell, Shorebird Ecology, Conservation, and Management, →ISBN,...

Origin

From over- + summer.

Forms

oversummers oversummering oversummered

Related

sunbird