[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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Vernal Equinox >> V Words
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