dauer

Borrowed from German Dauer (“duration”).

dauer (plural dauers)

1. (nematology) A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit increased durability.
   • 2008 December 3, Patrick Narbonne, Richard Roy, “Caenorhabditis elegans dauers need LKB1/AMPK to ration lipid reserves and ensure long-term survival”, in Nature:

     When Caenorhabditis elegans larvae enter dauer they arrest feeding but remain active and motile, yet become stress-resistant, extremely long-lived and non-ageing.

• Rueda, adure

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯ɐ

dauer

1. inflection of dauern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

dauer

1. second-person singular imperative of daueren