Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or belonging to the summer.
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- adjective Of or relating to
summer . - adjective Coming forth in the summer.
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- adjective (rare) of or occurring in summer
Etymologies
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From Latin aestivalis.
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Examples
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Voltinism induction aestival diapause Colorado potato beetle,
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The solstices, you will remember, are two in each year, the aestival or summer solstice, and the hyemal or winter solstice.
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps 1794
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n. - sense perception, aesthesia. aestival adj. - of summer. aestivation, n.
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