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Vernal vs Scaturiginous - What's the difference?

vernal | scaturiginous |

As a proper noun vernal

is a city in utah.

As an adjective scaturiginous is

having a copious supply of springs or sources of water; vernal.

vernal

English

Alternative forms

* vernall “ vernal, a.'' (and ''n.'') ” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to spring.
  • Young; fresh. (rfex)
  • Belonging to youth.
  • * Thomson
    • when after the long vernal day of life
  • * Keble
    • And seems it hard thy vernal' years / Few ' vernal joys can show?

    Usage notes

    In everyday speech, used almost exclusively in phrase vernal equinox; in other contexts, spring is used attributively, as in spring colors'' or ''spring flowers, and even is frequently replaced with spring equinox.

    Antonyms

    * autumnal

    Coordinate terms

    * (pertaining to seasons) summer (summery), aestival/estival; winter (wintry), hibernal, brumal

    Derived terms

    * prevernal * vernal-bearded * vernal conjunctivitis * vernal crocus * vernal cyclamen * vernal equinox, vernal equinoctial * vernal gentian * vernal grass * vernality * vernalization * vernalize * vernal keratoconjunctivitis * vernally * vernal orobus * vernal pool * vernal sandwort * vernal season * vernal sedge * vernal-seeming * vernal speedwell * vernal squill * vernal stargrass * vernal starwort * vernal-tinctured

    Related terms

    * primavera * ver * vere * vere-time

    References

    Anagrams

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    scaturiginous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a copious supply of springs or sources of water; vernal.
  • *1856:' For their own protection, the tribes on the Susquehannah formed a league, which was strengthened by daily accessions of straggling families, scattered, as chance or fancy dictated, along the brook-sides or under the edge of some forest glade of the umbrose, '''scaturginious land. -- Winthrop Sargent & Robert Orme. ''The history of an expedition against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 under Major-General Edward Braddock . Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, p96

    • Related terms

    *scaturient