vespertine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.

   “Sovereign, majestic peace, joined to the spiritual isolation of the vespertine hour, rose up from those diaphanous, remote distances into the pure sky, where light little clouds, very much like bundles of cotton, scattered sparsely here and there, were tinged with gold.”

2. sıfat That sets after the sun.

   “But, owing to the vespertine configuration of Jupiter and Mars, as well as the masculine condition of the anterior parts of the triplicity, and the feminine condition of its latter parts, the said nations regard women with scorn and indifference.”

3. sıfat That is principally active at dusk.

   “In both forms of this interesting plant, the medium-sized spider-like flowers are closed from morning until late afternoon when they open to attract vespertine insects.”

4. sıfat Occurring in the evening.

   “Similarly, the flowers of the sphingophilous taxa correspond to the characteristics and habits of western American hawkmoths in many ways: in ... vespertine and nocturnal nectar production”

5. sıfat That opens or blooms in the evening.

   “Herbaceous; leaves alternate, pinnatifid, asperate; flowers large, terminal and solitary, vespertine, (or expanding towards sun-set,) not deciduous or marcescent after closing, but re-opening at the usual time for several days in succession, when closed involute in a cone;[…].”