vespertine

a. 黄昏的, 薄暮的, (花)晚上开的

发音

US /ˈvɛspɚtɪn/
US /ˈvɛspɚtaɪn/

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

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

    诗歌

    1837, William Evans Burton (editor), Philadelphia in the Dog Days: An Incoherency, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review, Volume 1: July—December, page 131, The peripatetics issue forth to indulge in the usual vespertine locomotion; and stroll gently down the aristocratic Chesnut and up the sedate and solid-seeming Mulberry, or vice versa.

  2. 2.

    That sets after the sun.

    宗教 哲学
  3. 3.

    That is principally active at dusk.

    生物 动物学
  4. 4.

    Occurring in the evening.

    生物 植物学
  5. 5.

    That opens or blooms in the evening.

    生物 植物学

词源

From Middle English vespertyne, from Latin vespertīnus (“evening”).

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