Auroral

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the dawn.
  • Resembling the dawn in color, beauty, etc.; hence, roseate.
  • Pertaining or relating to the polar aurora; resembling an aurora.
  • In geology, appellative of the second of Professor H. D. Rogers's fifteen divisions of the Paleozoic strata in Pennsylvania.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
  • adjective. Rosy in colour, blushing, roseate.
  • adjective. Pertaining to the aurora borealis.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras
  • adjective. characteristic of the dawn
  • Word Usage
    "We perceive what are termed auroral plates of a purple or reddish-violet color, more or less extended, according as this species of veil, formed by icy particles, extends to a greater or less distance from the poles."
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    Balmoral  Coral  Laurel  Oral  Orel  
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    rosy