vernal 音标拼音: [v'ɚnəl]
a . 春天的,和煦的,青春的
春天的,和煦的,青春的
vernal adj 1 :
suggestive of youth ;
vigorous and fresh ; "
he is young for his age " [
synonym : {
youthful }, {
vernal }, {
young }]
2 :
of or characteristic of or occurring in spring ; "
the vernal equinox " [
ant : {
autumnal }, {
summery }, {
wintery }, {
wintry }]
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L .
vernalis ,
fr .
vernus vernal ,
ver spring ;
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Skr .
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1 .
Of or pertaining to the spring ;
appearing in the spring ;
as ,
vernal bloom .
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And purple all the ground with vernal flowers .
--
Milton .
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2 .
Fig .:
Belonging to youth ,
the spring of life .
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When after the long vernal day of life . --
Thomson .
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And seems it hard thy vernal years Few vernal joys can show ? --
Keble .
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{
Vernal equinox } (
Astron .),
the point of time in each year when the sun crosses the equator when proceeding northward ,
about March 21 ,
when day and night are of approximately equal duration .
The beginning of the Spring season .
{
Vernal grass } (
Bot .),
a low ,
soft grass ({
Anthoxanthum odoratum }),
producing in the spring narrow spikelike panicles ,
and noted for the delicious fragrance which it gives to new -
mown hay ; --
also called {
sweet vernal grass }.
See Illust .
in Appendix .
{
Vernal signs } (
Astron .),
the signs ,
Aries ,
Taurus ,
and Gemini ,
in which the sun appears between the vernal equinox and summer solstice .
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113 Moby Thesaurus words for "
vernal ":
aestival ,
arctic ,
autumn ,
autumnal ,
beryl -
green ,
berylline ,
blue -
green ,
bluish -
green ,
boreal ,
brumal ,
budding ,
callow ,
canicular ,
chartreuse ,
chloranemic ,
chlorine ,
chlorotic ,
citrine ,
citrinous ,
dewy ,
emerald ,
equinoctial ,
ever -
new ,
evergreen ,
firsthand ,
fledgling ,
foliaged ,
fresh ,
glaucescent ,
glaucous ,
glaucous -
green ,
grassy ,
green ,
green as grass ,
green -
blue ,
greenish ,
greenish -
blue ,
greenish -
yellow ,
greensick ,
growing ,
hibernal ,
hiemal ,
holly ,
immature ,
impubic ,
inexperienced ,
ingenuous ,
innocent ,
intact ,
ivy ,
ivy -
green ,
juicy ,
leafy ,
leaved ,
maiden ,
maidenly ,
midsummer ,
midwinter ,
minor ,
naive ,
neoteric ,
nestling ,
new ,
new -
fledged ,
olivaceous ,
olive ,
olive -
green ,
original ,
out of season ,
porraceous ,
pristine ,
raw ,
ripening ,
sappy ,
seasonal ,
sempervirent ,
smaragdine ,
solstitial ,
spring ,
springlike ,
summer ,
summerlike ,
summerly ,
summery ,
tender ,
unadult ,
unbeaten ,
underage ,
undeveloped ,
unfledged ,
unformed ,
unhandled ,
unlicked ,
unmellowed ,
unripe ,
unseasoned ,
untouched ,
untried ,
untrodden ,
unused ,
verdant ,
verdurous ,
vernant ,
vert ,
virescent ,
virgin ,
virginal ,
winter ,
winterlike ,
wintery ,
wintry ,
yellowish -
green ,
young
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