vernal

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Ver=nal

CIDE DICTIONARY

vernal, a. [L. vernalis, fr. vernus vernal, ver spring; akin to Gr. 'e`ar, Skr. vasanta, Icel. vār, and E. Easter, east.].

•  Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.  [1913 Webster]

  "And purple all the ground with vernal flowers."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.  [1913 Webster]

  "When after the long vernal day of life."  [1913 Webster]

  "And seems it hard thy vernal years
  Few vernal joys can show?"  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vernal, adj. of, in, or appropriate to spring (vernal equinox; vernal breezes).

Idiom

vernal grass a sweet-scented European grass, Anthoxanthum odoratum, grown for hay.

Derivative

vernally adv.

Etymology

L vernalis f. vernus f. ver spring

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

vernal

Newness

N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.

Morning

N morning, morn, forenoon, a, m, prime, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, foreday, sunup, peep of day, break of day, aurora, first blush of the morning, first flush of the morning, prime of the morning, twilight, crepuscule, sunrise, cockcrow, cockcrowing, the small hours, the wee hours of the morning, spring, vernal equinox, first point of Aries, noon, midday, noonday, noontide, meridian, prime, nooning, noontime, summer, midsummer, matin, matutinal, vernal, at sunrise, with the sun, with the lark, when the morning dawns, at shut of evening flowers, entre chien et loup, flames in the forehead of the morning sky, the breezy call of incense-breathing morn.