Vernal meaning

Adjective: vernal

Pronunciation: (vur-n(u)l)

Vernal meaning: 

• Of or characteristic of or occurring in spring.
• Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh.

Synonyms: early-blooming, early-flowering, spring-blooming, spring-flowering, young, youthful

Quotations: Doug Stewart – There’s a definite increased interest in vernal pools, and people want to know if they have them on their property.

William Wordsworth – One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, of moral evil and of good, than all the sages can.

John Milton – In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

Doug Stewart – It’s only in the last few years that we’ve really been looking at vernal pools. It’s becoming much more of a front-burner issue.

Darin Hickey – Vernal came out more physical in the second game, and we sort of lost our cool. That took us out of our game.

Sample sentences:

1. Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,The bee’s collected treasures sweet, Sweet music’s melting full, but sweeter yet. The still small voice of gratitude.
2. The scattered red dots on the map are vernal pools, which are home to salamanders, amphibians, and other important resources.
3. We’re over our heads in vernal pools.
4. He is vernal for his age.
5. If use of this site were denied, you would be pushing the church people to seek another six-acre site, probably north of the Merritt Parkway. A discussion of a vernal pool would pale by these new and serious environmental problems for our town.
6. Vernal pools can be found in a number of places. From high elevation saddles between mountain tops down to flood plains in the Champlain Valley. Basically any place that will hold water for three or four months at a time is a potential breeding site.
7. We have had guard rails up where there are vernal pools stating there is not off-road riding in that area near Southern Oregon Fields and Kershaw Road. The traditional users have been pretty good about staying out of there.
8. The plight of California’s natural environment is mirrored by the plight of the salamander. As the salamander loses its habitat, so too does California lose its precious oak woodlands, grasslands and vernal pools.
9. At the close of evening twilight the angle is greatest about three weeks before the vernal equinox.
10. Near the vernal equinox the case is reversed, the interval between two risings of the nearly full moon being at its maximum, and between two settings at its minimum.