单词 | matinal |
释义 | matinaladj. 1. = matutinal adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > morning > [adjective] earlyOE rathea1425 matutinalc1450 matutinec1450 morning1535 antemeridian1592 betimely1594 grey-eyed1597 matins1643 ante-jentacular1796 matinal1803 matutinary1858 pre-luncheon1909 1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) II. i. 11 To attend the matinal déjeuné's of old Gruffy in town. 1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. v. §9. 30 The matinal chirp of a bird. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. 74 Believing it could be nobody less than the bishop come to alarm them with a matinal visit. 1908 J. Davidson Testament 37 The earth with its seas and its skies, Its flowers and its matinal dew. 1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 100 Wounds contracted past noon are less auspicious than matinal injuries. 2. a. = matutinal adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [adjective] > rising early matinal1819 matutinal1834 matutine1850 yary1925 1819 H. Busk Vestriad v. 276 The grey-ey'd Hours climb up the starry way To meet fair maidens matinal as they. 1842 F. Trollope Visit to Italy I. xiv. 219 As if my very matinal son and myself had constituted the whole party. 1997 Church Times 11 Apr. 20/3 I am, metabolically speaking, one of Bishop Heber's sons of the morning: a matinal man who is fast asleep before the epilogue. b. Entomology. Of, relating to, or designating insects that are only active in the early morning. ΚΠ 1970 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 43 251 (title) Some competitive relationships among matinal and late afternoon foraging activities of caupolicanine bees. 1985 Biotropica 17 217 Visitors that remove nectar, but are ineffective pollinators include seven Euglossa spp. and three species of matinal butterflies (Hesperiidae). 1997 Jrnl. Thermal Biol. 22 453 Activity patterns are..either matinal, crepuscular, or bimodal; essentially desert bees avoid heat and adapt to cold desert dawns and dusks. ΚΠ 1858 H. D. Rogers Geol. Pennsylvania II. ii. 749 These periods..are the Primal, Auroral, Matinal, Levant, Surgent [etc.]. 1858 H. D. Rogers Geol. Pennsylvania II. ii. 783 Depositions and Disturbances of the Matinal Period. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 379 ‘Matinal’ Limestone with blue shale. 1876 Virginia: Geogr. & Polit. Summary 22 (table) Systems of geological classification compared... Pennsylvania and Virginia Names—H. D. & W. B. Rogers... Cambrian..Matinal. Auroral. Primal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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