Found 5 hits - Term: vernal, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vernal \ver"nal\ v~er"nal, a. l. vernalis, fr. vernus
vernal, ver spring; akin to gr. 'e`ar, skr. vasanta, icel.
v=ar, and e. easter, east.
1. of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring;
as, vernal bloom.
1913 webster
and purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
--milton.
1913 webster
2. fig.: belonging to youth, the spring of life.
1913 webster
when after the long vernal day of life. --thomson.
1913 webster
and seems it hard thy vernal years
few vernal joys can show? --keble.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
vernal equinox vernal grass anthoxanthum odoratum sweet vernal grass vernal signs
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
vernal
adj 1: suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh syn: youthful
2: of or characteristic of or occurring in spring; "the vernal
equinox" ant: summery, autumnal, wintry
see also:
youthful summery autumnal wintry
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
- [4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
vernal, ut city, fips 80090
location: 40.45198 n, 109.53554 w
population 1990: 6644 2845 housing units
area: 11.8 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
zip codes: 84078
- [5] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
vernal, ut -- u.s. city in utah
population 2000: 7714
housing units 2000: 2957
land area 2000: 4.582314 sq. miles 11.868137 sq. km
water area 2000: 0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
total area 2000: 4.582314 sq. miles 11.868137 sq. km
fips code: 80090
located within: utah ut, fips 49
location: 40.454758 n, 109.535471 w
zip codes 1990: 84078
note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
headwords:
vernal, ut
vernal
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http://www.vernal.com/, score=100, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:10 pm
Vernal City Online
...Vernal City, 447 East Main, Vernal, UT 84078 Phone: (435) 789-2255 Fax ... Maps of Vernal. Vernal City - America In Bloom Champs 2004. America In ... ..
http://www.vernalcity.org/, score=98, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:23 pm Welcome to The Vernal Pool
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http://www.vernalpool.org/, score=96, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 10:21 am
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http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/VernalEquinox.html, score=95, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 2:28 am
The Vernal Equinox
...Celebrating the Vernal Equinox. While the Vernal Equinox was an ... The Vernal Equinox is a time of renewal, both in Nature and in the ... ..
http://www.equinox-and-solstice.com/html/vernal_equinox.html, score=94, date indexed=November 4, 2005, 4:09 pm CWIS-Vernal Pool
...Why Do Some People Think Vernal Pools Are Important? Vernal pools are ... What is a Vernal Pool? Vernal pools are seasonally flooded depressions ... ..
http://ceres.ca.gov/wetlands/whats_new/vernal_sjq.html, score=89, date indexed=January 23, 2006, 2:36 pm VernalPools.Org - California Vernal Pools
...... recently been published on grazing in vernal pools and on vernal pool ... This vernal pool grassland is home to over 200 species of plants, many ... ..
http://www.vernalpools.org/, score=88, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 12:33 am Vernal (Spring) Equinox
...... the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern (vernal ... Modern astronomy aside, people have recognized the vernal equinox for ... ..
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