adjective. Of, relating to, or occurring in the spring.

adjective. Characteristic of or resembling spring.

adjective. Fresh and young; youthful.

Of or pertaining to the spring; belonging to the spring; appearing in spring: as, vernal bloom.

Of or belonging to youth, the springtime of life.

In botany, appearing in spring: as, vernal flowers.

Done or accomplished in spring: as, the vernal migration or molt of birds

noun. The trade-name of diethylmalonvlurea, a colorless, crystalline powder, used in medicine as a soporific.

adjective. Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring.

adjective. Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.

adjective. 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.

adjective. 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.

adjective. the signs, Aries, Taurus, and Gemini, in which the sun appears between the vernal equinox and summer solstice.

adjective. Young; fresh.

adjective. Pertaining to spring.

adjective. suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

adjective. of or characteristic of or occurring in spring

"The term vernal pool originally referred only to small, intermittently filled wetlands found in the Mediterranean-type climate of the western United States."

autumnal  

vernal equinox  vernal fever  vernal grass  vernal signs  vernal whitlow-grass  

early-blooming  early-flowering  immature  late-spring-blooming  spring-blooming  

colonel  diurnal  eternal  external  fraternal  

aestival  aromatic  autumnal  brumal  dewy  

aestival  arctic  autumn  autumnal  beryl-green