primaveral

comparative more primaveral · superlative most primaveral

1. Relating to or characteristic of early spring.

   challenged and (sometimes) championed by as alert a group of students as one could hope to see on a primaveral day.

   1967, Victor Turner, “Preface”, in The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

   2 more examples

   The first, or Primaveral season, may be considered as beginning at Candlemas, on the first opening of the early Spring flowers.

   1839, Sporting Almanack and Oracle of Rural Life, page 8

   Hog-wild in the suggestive orchard, / My mouth rejoiced, my belly tortured, / Set in a primaveral scene, / I tasted juice as sour as sin.

   1947, Myron Broomell, “Father Galen's Florilege, or a Symposy of Diseases”, in The New Mexico Quarterly, volume 17, number 3