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aestival
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective aestival has 1 sense
- aestival(s = adj.all) estival - (rare) of or occurring in summer; "the sky was a burnished aestival blue"; "estival winds"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
aestival, adj. (US estival) formal belonging to or appearing in summer.
Etymology
ME f. OF estival f. L aestivalis f. aestivus f. aestus heat
THESAURUS
aestival
arctic, autumn, autumnal, beryl-green, berylline, blood-hot, blood-warm, blue-green, bluish-green, boreal, brumal, calid, canicular, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald, equatorial, equinoctial, foliaged, genial, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, hibernal, hiemal, holly, ivy, ivy-green, leafy, leaved, luke, lukewarm, midsummer, midwinter, mild, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, out of season, porraceous, room-temperature, seasonal, smaragdine, solstitial, spring, springlike, subtropical, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, sunny, sunshiny, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic, toasty, tropical, unfrozen, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, warm, warm as toast, warmish, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry, yellowish-green
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