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adjective in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
adjective (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
adjective lying with head on paws as if sleeping
originFrom Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dormiēns, present participle of dormiō (“to sleep”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0