dormant
DOR-muntadjMeaning asleep or inactive for a time, but able to wake again
Memory hook DORM-ant: asleep, but it will WAKE. All winter the bear sleeps under the snow, quiet and still, but in spring it will wake up hungry: through the winter it is dormant.
The dormant volcano has not erupted for three hundred years.
In context Seeds can stay dormant in the soil all winter, waiting until the warm spring rains wake them and they begin to sprout.
Similar inactive, asleep, resting, latent
Opposite active, awake
From French dormant, “sleeping,” from dormir (to sleep), from Latin dormire.