Word Meaning 冬眠
冬眠 is read as とうみん (toumin) and means hibernation.
Meaning
English
- hibernation
- winter sleep
- torpor
Reading
Kana
とうみん
Romaji
toumin
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10冬眠したい。
I want to hibernate.
熊は冬眠します。
Bears hibernate.
リスは冬眠中です。
The squirrel is hibernating.
寒い。冬眠したい。
It's cold. I want to hibernate.
冬の間、クマは冬眠します。
Bears hibernate during the winter.
クマって、どうして冬眠するの?
Why do bears hibernate?
どうして人間は冬眠しないのですか?
Why don't people hibernate?
冬眠するのはクマだけかと思ってたけど、先生がカメも冬眠するって言ってた。
I used to think that only bears hibernate, but the teacher said that turtles do as well.
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.