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vernal
(encz) | vernal,jarní adj: i ve smyslu svěží Zdeněk Brož |
vernal
(gcide) | vernal \ver"nal\ (v[~e]r"nal), a. [L. vernalis, fr. vernus
vernal, ver spring; akin to Gr. 'e`ar, Skr. vasanta, Icel.
v[=a]r, and E. Easter, east.]
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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vernal
(wn) | vernal
adj 1: suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for
his age" [syn: youthful, vernal, young]
2: of or characteristic of or occurring in spring; "the vernal
equinox" [ant: autumnal, summery, wintery, wintry] |
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vernal
(encz) | vernal,jarní adj: i ve smyslu svěží Zdeněk Brož |
vernal equinox
(encz) | vernal equinox,jarní rovnodennost [fráz.] Ivan Masár |
vernal iris
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vernal witch hazel
(encz) | vernal witch hazel, n: |
Avernal
(gcide) | Avernal \A*ver"nal\, Avernian \A*ver"ni*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy,
famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers
fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It
was represented by the poets to be connected with the
infernal regions.
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Clupea vernalis
(gcide) | Alewife \Ale"wife`\, n.; pl. Alewives. [This word is properly
aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture
of maize in America, "Phil Trans." No. 142, p. 1065, and
Baddam's "Memoirs," vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zool.)
A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring
family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, {branch
herring}. The name is locally applied to other related
species.
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Cyclophis vernalis
(gcide) | Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. Greener (gr[=e]n"[~e]r);
superl. Greenest.] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D.
groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw.
gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See
Grow.]
1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
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2. Having a sickly color; wan.
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To look so green and pale. --Shak.
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3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
as, a green manhood; a green wound.
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As valid against such an old and beneficent
government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
--Burke.
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4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
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5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
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We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
Watts.
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6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced;
young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or
judgment.
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I might be angry with the officious zeal which
supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
gray hairs. --Sir W.
Scott.
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7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
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8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the
enviroment; -- of political parties and political
philosophies; as, the European green parties.
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Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
United States; -- called also cat brier.
Green con (Zool.), the pollock.
Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
named joe-rocker.
Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or
unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
crop, etc.
Green diallage. (Min.)
(a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
(b) Smaragdite.
Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
(Aris[ae]ma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip;
-- called also dragon root.
Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green.
Green ebony.
(a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having
a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
work, and in dyeing.
(b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony.
Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
to which the color of the flame is due.
Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or
aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary.
Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in
Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their
outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].
Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
the West Indies and in South America, used for
shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
Guiana is the Nectandra Rodi[oe]i, that of Martinique is
the Colubrina ferruginosa.
Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite.
Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima);
-- called also green sloke.
Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite.
Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch.
Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm.
Green marble (Min.), serpentine.
Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
See Greengill.
Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey
(Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and
trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
Indies early in the last century, and has become very
abundant there.
Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
of platinum.
Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
vessel's deck.
Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis.
Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes
(Cyclophis vernalis, and C. [ae]stivus). They are
bright green in color.
Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See
Turtle.
Green vitriol.
(a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
(b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and {sulphate
of iron}.
Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
yet baked.
Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker
(Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.
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Governal
(gcide) | Governal \Gov"ern*al\, Governail \Gov"ern*ail\, n. [Cf. F.
gouvernail helm, rudder, L. gubernaculum.]
Management; mastery. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --Spenser.
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Scrophularia vernalis
(gcide) | Brownwort \Brown"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
A species of figwort or Scrophularia ({Scrophularia
vernalis}), and other species of the same genus, mostly
perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
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sweet vernal grass
(gcide) | vernal \ver"nal\ (v[~e]r"nal), a. [L. vernalis, fr. vernus
vernal, ver spring; akin to Gr. 'e`ar, Skr. vasanta, Icel.
v[=a]r, and E. Easter, east.]
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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vernal
(gcide) | vernal \ver"nal\ (v[~e]r"nal), a. [L. vernalis, fr. vernus
vernal, ver spring; akin to Gr. 'e`ar, Skr. vasanta, Icel.
v[=a]r, and E. Easter, east.]
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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Vernal equinox
(gcide) | vernal \ver"nal\ (v[~e]r"nal), a. [L. vernalis, fr. vernus
vernal, ver spring; akin to Gr. 'e`ar, Skr. vasanta, Icel.
v[=a]r, and E. Easter, east.]
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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Vernal grass
(gcide) | vernal \ver"nal\ (v[~e]r"nal), a. [L. vernalis, fr. vernus
vernal, ver spring; akin to Gr. 'e`ar, Skr. vasanta, Icel.
v[=a]r, and E. Easter, east.]
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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Vernal signs
(gcide) | vernal \ver"nal\ (v[~e]r"nal), a. [L. vernalis, fr. vernus
vernal, ver spring; akin to Gr. 'e`ar, Skr. vasanta, Icel.
v[=a]r, and E. Easter, east.]
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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hamamelis vernalis
(wn) | Hamamelis vernalis
n 1: fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very
small flowers from midwinter to spring [syn: {vernal witch
hazel}, Hamamelis vernalis] |
opheodrys vernalis
(wn) | Opheodrys vernalis
n 1: of western and central United States [syn: {smooth green
snake}, Opheodrys vernalis] |
vernal
(wn) | vernal
adj 1: suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for
his age" [syn: youthful, vernal, young]
2: of or characteristic of or occurring in spring; "the vernal
equinox" [ant: autumnal, summery, wintery, wintry] |
vernal equinox
(wn) | vernal equinox
n 1: March 21 [syn: vernal equinox, March equinox, {spring
equinox}] [ant: September equinox, autumnal equinox,
fall equinox]
2: (astronomy) the equinoctial point that lies in the
constellation of Pisces |
vernal iris
(wn) | vernal iris
n 1: low-growing spring-flowering American iris with bright
blue-lilac flowers [syn: dwarf iris, vernal iris, {Iris
verna}] |
vernal witch hazel
(wn) | vernal witch hazel
n 1: fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very
small flowers from midwinter to spring [syn: {vernal witch
hazel}, Hamamelis vernalis] |
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