Volcanoes can be active, dormant, or extinct.

Is there dormant life on Mars?

The scientists say the insects lay dormant, feeding on tree roots and slowly growing underground.

Nearly all plants go dormant during the winter.

At the end of the sleep the dormant awakes.

The cobbles lie dormant beneath a layer of asphalt.

Dormant volcanoes no longer produce eruptions, but might again sometime in the future.

Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano located in Tanzania.

In each of us there lies a dormant superhuman.

The project envisions a future where human explorers can bring a compact habitat built out of a lightweight material with dormant fungi that will last on long journeys to places like Mars. Upon arrival, by unfolding that basic structure and simply adding water, the fungi will be able to grow around that framework into a fully functional human habitat – all while being safely contained within the habitat to avoid contaminating the Martian environment.