All 3 Uses of
dormant
in
Dune
- The race of humans had felt its own dormancy, sensed itself grown stale and knew now only the need to experience turmoil in which the genes would mingle and the strong new mixtures survive.†
Book 3
- The few survivors entered a semidormant cyst-hibernation to emerge in six years as small (about three meters long) sandworms.†
Book A1 -
- Its green and white stripes indicate the constant multiple, condition of parallel active and dormant chlorophyll regions.†
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Definition:
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(dormant) not active or growing, but capable of doing so in the futurein various senses, including:
- a volcano that is not erupting and not extinct
- a plant not growing in the winter
- a disease that is not currently causing harm or growing worse, but which is not cured and might grow worse in the future
- a person's talents or feelings that are yet to be realized