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vernal

[vur-nl]

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adjective

of or pertaining to spring: vernal sunshine.

appearing or occurring in spring: vernal migratory movements.

appropriate to or suggesting spring; springlike: vernal greenery.

belonging to or characteristic of youth: vernal longings.

Origin:
1525–35; < Latin vernālis, equivalent to vern(us) of spring (vēr spring + -nus adj. suffix) + -ālis -al¹

Related forms

ver·nal·ly, adverb

Synonyms
4. youthful, fresh, new.

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vernal (ˈvɜːn^əl)

—*adj*
1.	of or occurring in spring
2.	poetic of or characteristic of youth; fresh

[C16: from Latin vernālis, from vēr spring]

'vernally

—*adv*

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vernal

"pertaining to spring," 1534, from L. vernalis "of the spring," from vernus "of spring," from ver "spring," from PIE *wesr- "spring" (cf. O.N. var "spring," Gk. ear, Skt. vasantah, Pers. bahar, O.C.S. vesna "spring," Lith. vasara "summer").

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"We are accustomed to say in New England that few and fewer pigeons visit us every year. Our forests furnish no mast for them. So, it would seem, few and fewer thoughts visit each growing man from year to year, for the grove in our minds is laid waste,—sold to feed unnecessary fires of ambition, or sent to mill,—and there is scarcely a twig left for them to perch on. They no longer build nor breed with us. In some more genial season, perchance, a faint shadow flits across the landscape of the mind, cast by the wings of some thought in its vernal or autumnal migration, but, looking up, we are unable to detect the substance of the thought itself. Our winged thoughts are turned to poultry. They no longer soar, and they attain only to a Shanghai and Cochin-China grandeur. Those gra-a-ate thoughts, those gra-a-ate men you hear of!"

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