As the Greeks used the seasons and the vernal points their concepts were used to produce a calendar. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The vernal equinox. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The term vernal pool originally referred only to small, intermittently filled wetlands found in the Mediterranean-type climate of the western United States. From Wordnik.com. [Vernal pool] Reference
The sun will cross precisely over the equator at 7: 44 this morning, a time known as the vernal or spring equinox. From Wordnik.com. [news | OS | http://www.ocala.com] Reference
I have half filled this sheet, which capability I attribute, chiefly, to the sweet fields that are now smiling in vernal beauty before me. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor] Reference
The ephemerally flooded depressions are called vernal pools. From Wordnik.com. [Coastal Hills - Santa Rosa Plain] Reference
This moment is known as the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The crossing happens only one other time, at the start of spring, when it is called the vernal equinox. From Wordnik.com. [this time ~ this space] Reference
Although generally isolated, they are sometimes connected to each other by small drainages known as vernal swales. From Wordnik.com. [Vernal pool] Reference
Sidereal noon is when we have turned ourselves under the point where the sun crosses the equator in March, called the vernal equinox. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Kepler]
The thought of it throws a kind of vernal splendour over my autumn. ". From Wordnik.com. [Strife and Peace] Reference
While out upon the balcony, amid the vernal gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose. -- iii. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
And the soft vernal breeze kindly lent them its aid. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of "The Peacock At Home"] Reference
I look on the vernal day and say with poor Fergusson. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The soft vernal influence shed a languid grace over the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
By this regulation the vernal equinox which then happened on the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Flooding the earth with flowers, and the air with melodies vernal. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
RENEE MONTAGNE, host: The vernal equinox made it official this week. From Wordnik.com. [Stravinsky's Riotous 'Rite of Spring'] Reference
Thus, April Fool's Day formed a relic of festivities held at the vernal equinox. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The ancients began the year, some from the autumnal, others from the vernal equinox. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Mothers, with their white-robed daughters, were assembled beneath the vernal arcade. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
The vernal winds do not hinder the peach tree and the pear from bursting forth in bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The rains which elsewhere had flooded the lowlands here but enlivened the vernal freshness of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Yet all its vernal beauty seemed but as a portal to the inner shrine, the sanctuary of Southern hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
He heard it, when watching; lover-like beneath her balcony during the first vernal days of their attachment. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
It starts at the exact minute of the vernal equinox, when the sun crosses the equator and the seasons change. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Foods Ring in Persian New Year of Nowruz] Reference
But with the returning spring the unused walks again are paced, and the dry keels launched into the vernal waters. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
The winds in Carolina are changeable and erratic, and, about the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, commonly boisterous. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
The vernal resurrection and Autumnal Crucifixion, representing the alternate triumph of the personified principles of. From Wordnik.com. [Astral Worship] Reference
The day is drawing to its close, and the rays of the sinking sun throw a mellow light over a waving sea of vernal herbage. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Neither was it "sowed in sunshine," nor was it "in vernal breezes and gentle rains that it fixed its roots, and grew and strengthened.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
In Rajputana Gauri is worshipped as the corn goddess at the Gangore festival about the time of the vernal equinox, especially by women. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The meadow foxtail and sweet-scented vernal would be left out entirely, and some six or eight pounds added to the Timothy and red clover. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Here is the sweet-scented vernal grass; taste and see how pleasant it is; it is the grass which, perhaps more than any other, gives that charming odour to the hayfields. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
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