Wordsmart Friday: SEROTINAL (ADJ.) si-ROT-in-ahl Pertaining to or occurring in late summer. The night condenses into me, allays the bonds of my serotinal blight. Count Dracula and I share in this flight. -- Philip K. Jason, Near the Fire, 1983 Botanists use the word serotinous to describe late-blossoming, and serotinal refers to the late-summer season of the year, especially used in descriptions of life-histories of freshwater organisms (Allaby 1985). -- Robert J. Whelan, The Ecology of Fire, 1995 In these population dynamic trends obvious differences exist between the aestival and serotinal aspects. -- Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca, 1986 Origin: Serotinal entered English in the early twentieth century. It is derived from the Latin word sērōtinus meaning "late of time."
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:49:47 +0000
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