vernal

IPA: vˈɝnʌɫ

Examples of "vernal" in Sentences

The ephemerally flooded depressions are called vernal pools.
Historically, March 21 is known as the vernal equinox -- an equal balance of light and dark.
The sun will cross precisely over the equator at 7: 44 this morning, a time known as the vernal or spring equinox.
Although generally isolated, they are sometimes connected to each other by small drainages known as vernal swales.
When the night and day are equal in spring, the point which the sun occupies on the heavens is termed the vernal equinox.
I have half filled this sheet, which capability I attribute, chiefly, to the sweet fields that are now smiling in vernal beauty before me.
This happens twice a year, and the times when the sun passes the equator are called the vernal or spring equinox and the autumnal equinox respectively.
The term vernal pool originally referred only to small, intermittently filled wetlands found in the Mediterranean-type climate of the western United States.
In the northern hemisphere the March equinox (or "first point of Aries") is called the vernal equinox; the September equinox ( "first point of Libra"), the autumnal.