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ver·nal

(vûr′nəl)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or occurring in the spring.

2. Characteristic of or resembling spring.

3. Fresh and young; youthful.

[Latin vērnālis, from vērnus, from vēr, spring; see wesr̥ in Indo-European roots.]

ver′nal·ly adv.

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vernal

(ˈvɜːnəl)

adj

1. of or occurring in spring

2. poetic of or characteristic of youth; fresh

[C16: from Latin vernālis, from vēr spring]

ˈvernally adv

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ver•nal

(ˈvɜr nl)

adj.

1. of, pertaining to, or occurring in spring.

2. appropriate to or suggesting spring.

3. belonging to or characteristic of youth.

[1525–35; < Latin vernālis=vern(us) of spring (vēr spring + -nus adj. suffix) + -ālis -al¹]

ver′nal•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	vernal - suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for his age" youthful, young young, immature - (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"
	2.	vernal - of or characteristic of or occurring in spring; "the vernal equinox" autumnal - of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn; "the autumnal equinox"; "autumnal fruits" summery - belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer; "summery weather"; "summery dresses" wintery, wintry - characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses"

vernal

adjective

Of, occurring in, or characteristic of the season of spring:

spring.

Translations

Frühling frühlingshaft

primaverile

wiosenny

vernal

[ˈvɜːnl] ADJ [equinox] → de primavera (liter) [flowers] → de primavera, primaveral

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vernal

adj → Frühlings-; vernal equinox → Frühlingsäquinoktium nt; vernal flowers (liter) → Frühlingsblumen pl

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Bonnycastle, who during the winter had been a good deal on the defensive, relaxed her vigilance a little, became whimsically wilful, vernally reckless, as it were, and ceased to calculate the consequences of an hospitality which a reference to the back files or even to the morning's issue of the newspapers might easily prove a mistake.

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That's why I eagerly, vernally, hasten my step for I well know: when summer comes in the land, and autumn, and the next winter, nothing will ever bring back this painfully luxuriant awakening in spring.

Boris A. Novak and the poetry of insomnia

These Temperate Zone terrestrial species are summer-deciduous plants restricted to vernally moist sites with relatively short growing seasons.