vernalizev.
/ˈvəːnəlʌɪz/, /ˈvəːnl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈvərnəˌlaɪz/ rare.
transitive. To render vernal or spring-like.
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the world > time > period > year > season > [verb (transitive)] > render spring-like
vernalize1830
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 500 By the amenity of their smile and their dallying jocundity, irradiating and vernalising whatever that smile and jocundity consecrate by tipping and touching.
1898 W. Watson Lines Richmond Park in Poems 165 The stored sunlight in your hair and eyes Would vernalise November, and renew the aged year.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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ˈvernalize
ˈvernalize v. [as a back-formation] (transitive) to treat or affect (seeds, etc.) in this way.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > induce premature flowering
vernalize1933
1933 Whyte & Hudson in Bull. Imperial Bureau Plant Genetics No. 9. 8 (heading) Technique for vernalizing long-day plants.
1976 Sci. Amer. Sept. 99/3 The crop flowers and produces grain in the spring after being vernalized, or induced to flower, by the low temperatures in winter.
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