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serotinal
serotinal
See also: sérotinal
English
Adjective
serotinal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to or occurring in late summer
- 1983, Philip K. Jason, Near the Fire, Dryad Press, p. 67
- the night condenses into me, allays the bonds of my serotinal blight.
- Count Dracula and I share in this flight:
- we seek moist shadows underneath the quays,
- in marrow-darkness bid our bodies twist.
- 1986, Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca, Publishing House of the Academy, vol. 83, p. 114
- In these population dynamic trends obvious differences exist between the aestival and serotinal aspects.
- 1995, Robert J. Whelan, The Ecology of Fire, Cambridge University Press, p. 96
- Botanists use the word serotinous to describe late-blossoming, and serotinal refers to the late-summer season of the year, especially used in descriptions of life-histories of freshwater organisms (Allaby 1985).
- 1983, Philip K. Jason, Near the Fire, Dryad Press, p. 67