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单词 vernal
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Definition of vernal in English:

vernal

adjective ˈvəːn(ə)lˈvərnl
  • Of, in, or appropriate to spring.

    the vernal freshness of the land
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She is impudently vernal, like Hogarth's more plebeian Shrimp-Girl, and even more fluorescent in her dewiness.
    • At least four listed vernal pool species also will benefit.
    • After the spring rains Sullivan Canyon, which lies behind my house in Bel Air, California, is a vernal paradise.
    • He wants to write big, important, unforgettable, unusual books, whose sentences zing with vernal energy.
    • Many vernal pools themselves are simply filled.
    • This past spring, I visited one such impermanent place, a vernal pool tucked into the base of Ruffner Mountain.
    • The same trend is evident in midge populations that occur in shallow vernal ponds in this marsh.
    • At vernal Iguacu National Park, the valves are wide open in a staggering demonstration of Nature's force.
    • The independent responses of vernal and summer herb communities to topography or disturbance are rarely considered.
    • Swans were racing along in the vernal currents.
    • Thirteen vernal pools, ranging in size from a quarter acre to nearly twenty-five acres, develop mostly on the tops of mesas.
    • Like its predecessors, the album arrives just in time for Spring and comes bearing more than a few certifiable vernal jams.
    • A little bit of the vernal season becomes a part of you.
    • It exudes the aroma of flowery vernal Kashmir landscape.
    • I even felt a little vernal as I got up this morning, actually, but at the time I put it down to the Nepali I had for lunch yesterday.
    • Remaining vernal pools within an area of approximately 36,500 acres in San Diego and Orange counties are included in the proposal.
    • Right ascension, measures the easterly distance of an object from the vernal point, along the plane of the celestial equator.
    • The correct Latin term for spring flowering is vernal, as in Leucojum vernum, the spring snowflake, and Crocus vernus, the Dutch crocus.
    • Officially the start of the Chinese lunar new year, it is a grand religious, patriotic, vernal, and family holiday rolled into one.
    • Of course, spring has its vernal breezes, thriving greenness, seasonal promises and so on.
    Synonyms
    springlike

Derivatives

  • vernally

  • adverb
    • The periphery of vernal pools, seeps, and vernally moist locales are favored by this primitive fern.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Approximately two acres of vernally significant ephemeral drainages and pools have been noted in the Blue Oak-Gray Pine Woodland.
      • Between these extremes we collected in low-mid elevation riparian areas and vernally moist meadows.
      • Demonstrating its ability to get vernally cute, the Board of Trade had called the derationing of clothes ‘Operation Godiva.’
      • The music is touching, melodic, vernally new-minted, ululating slides adding to the freshened mysticism of the music.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin vernalis, from vernus 'of the spring', from ver 'spring'.

Rhymes

colonel, diurnal, eternal, external, fraternal, infernal, internal, journal, kernel, maternal, nocturnal, paternal, supernal
 
 

Definition of vernal in US English:

vernal

adjectiveˈvərnlˈvərnl
  • Of, in, or appropriate to spring.

    the vernal freshness of the land
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The correct Latin term for spring flowering is vernal, as in Leucojum vernum, the spring snowflake, and Crocus vernus, the Dutch crocus.
    • Of course, spring has its vernal breezes, thriving greenness, seasonal promises and so on.
    • The independent responses of vernal and summer herb communities to topography or disturbance are rarely considered.
    • Many vernal pools themselves are simply filled.
    • A little bit of the vernal season becomes a part of you.
    • After the spring rains Sullivan Canyon, which lies behind my house in Bel Air, California, is a vernal paradise.
    • He wants to write big, important, unforgettable, unusual books, whose sentences zing with vernal energy.
    • I even felt a little vernal as I got up this morning, actually, but at the time I put it down to the Nepali I had for lunch yesterday.
    • Officially the start of the Chinese lunar new year, it is a grand religious, patriotic, vernal, and family holiday rolled into one.
    • It exudes the aroma of flowery vernal Kashmir landscape.
    • The same trend is evident in midge populations that occur in shallow vernal ponds in this marsh.
    • Thirteen vernal pools, ranging in size from a quarter acre to nearly twenty-five acres, develop mostly on the tops of mesas.
    • At least four listed vernal pool species also will benefit.
    • This past spring, I visited one such impermanent place, a vernal pool tucked into the base of Ruffner Mountain.
    • At vernal Iguacu National Park, the valves are wide open in a staggering demonstration of Nature's force.
    • Swans were racing along in the vernal currents.
    • Like its predecessors, the album arrives just in time for Spring and comes bearing more than a few certifiable vernal jams.
    • Right ascension, measures the easterly distance of an object from the vernal point, along the plane of the celestial equator.
    • Remaining vernal pools within an area of approximately 36,500 acres in San Diego and Orange counties are included in the proposal.
    • She is impudently vernal, like Hogarth's more plebeian Shrimp-Girl, and even more fluorescent in her dewiness.
    Synonyms
    springlike

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin vernalis, from vernus ‘of the spring’, from ver ‘spring’.

 
 
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