estival

Adjective

estival (comparative more estival, superlative most estival)

1. Of or relating to summer.
   • A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt; a loud auto, a quiet auto; people in pairs, not in a hurry, scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually; the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard, and starched milk; the image...1938, James Agee, Knoxville: Summer of 1915

   Synonyms:

   summery, summer

   Antonyms:

   hibernal, brumal, winter, wintry

2. Coming forth in the summer.
   • […] begin now to redden in abundance on the trees, and continue throughout the month, and part of the next; more particulars of which will be found in our catalogue of aestival fruits. The birds now begin to be very active in devouring the fruits, ...1824, Thomas Forster, The Perennial Calendar, and Companion to the Almanack, page 328
   • To the first or aestival class must also be referred a small number of early spring flowerers, such as the Alyssums and Drabas.1880, Rugby School, “Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society”, in Natural History, Society, page 5