"semi-hibernation" meaning in English

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          "text": "Should a warm day soon follow this untoward excitement, the after effects are to a certain extent modified, as a good cleansing flight can be taken; but when the cold still continues, the bees never again being able to regain their former state of semi-hibernation, drag out their existence wandering aimlessly about, and die at a rapid rate each day adding to the accumulating filth of the hive.",
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          "ref": "2009 September 23, G. E. W. Wolstenholme, Maeve O'Connor, editors, The Nature of Sleep, Wiley, page 321:",
          "text": "They are fed exclusively on insects which are caught on the wing by the parents; if there is a spell of bad weather the parents cannot collect their insects, the young swifts starve, lose their temperature regulation and go into a sort of semi-hibernation at a very low body temperature.",
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        "A state of reduced power consumption, and metabolic activity in animals during winter, but to a lesser degree than true hibernation."
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        "(biology) A state of reduced power consumption, and metabolic activity in animals during winter, but to a lesser degree than true hibernation."
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