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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2019-09-12 07:54 am

vespertine

vespertine (VES-per-tin, VES-per-teen) - adj., of, pertaining to, or occurring in the evening.


So the dusk-only part of crepuscular. (I kinda did these in the wrong order.) Some flowers and animals are vespertine. Taken around 1500 from Latin vespertīnus, from vesper, evening.

---L.

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