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vespertinal

vespertinal adjective: vespertine; occurring in the evening.

Adjective

vespertinal (not comparable)

  1. Vespertine; occurring in the evening.
    • F . became purely vespertinal, never stirring abroad till after dark1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC
  2. Opening or active in the evening.

Origin of vespertinal

From vespertine + -al.

Questions about vespertinal

What does vespertinal mean?
Vespertinal means vespertine; occurring in the evening.
What part of speech is vespertinal?
Vespertinal is an adjective.

Words near vespertinal in the dictionary

  1. vespertilionize
  2. vespertilionoid
  3. vespertilionoids
  4. vespertillionid
  5. vespertillionids
  6. vespertinal
  7. vespertine
  8. vespery
  9. vespetro
  10. vespiaries
  11. vespiary

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