Associations to the word «Cryptobiosis»

Wiktionary

CRYPTOBIOSIS, noun. (biology) A state of life, entered by some organisms, in which all metabolic activity is temporarily halted

Dictionary definition

CRYPTOBIOSIS, noun. A state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin