serotinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈɹɒtɪnəl/
ipa: /-ˈɹəʊ-/
ipa: /ˌsɛɹəˈtaɪnəl/
ipa: /səˈɹɑtɪnəl/
ipa: /səˈɹɑtnəl/
ipa: /ˌsɛɹəˈtaɪnəl/
rhymes: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From serotine + -al (suffix forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: Soon, however, the allantois undergoes changes of development looking towards the formation of the placenta at the base of the ovum, where the chorionic villi becomes more and more developed, the serotinal tissue growing toward and around them and encapsulating them, while at the same time the vessels of the serotinal layer become dilated to form the material system of placental blood-supply.
ref: 1878 June 22, Dr. Ford, “Aborted Ovum, and Fœtal Monstrosity”, in Tho[ma]s F. Rumbold, Hiram Christopher, editors, The Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, volume XXXV, St. Louis, Mo.: Geo[rge] O. Rumbold & Co., […], published October 1878, →OCLC, page 116:
text: The inner (chorionic) surface [of the placenta] exhibits ramifications of the umbilical vessels, and is closely covered on its fœtal side by the amnion; from its placental (outer, serotinal) side multitudes of arborescent vasculi villi arise[…].
ref: 1883, Harrison Allen, “Embryology and the Study of Malformations”, in A System of Human Anatomy. […], section VI (Organs of Sense, of Digestion and Genito-urinary Organs), Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry C[harles] Lea’s Son & Co., →OCLC, page 763, column 2:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: serotinous
word: serotine
extra: (“developing at a later time or later in a season, especially than is customary with allied species; specifically (botany), of a plant: flowering late in a season”)
glosses: Synonym of serotine (“developing at a later time or later in a season, especially than is customary with allied species; specifically (botany), of a plant: flowering late in a season”).
examples: text: The psoraleas, prairie clovers and blazing stars would probably occur to all us among the most the most abundant of the secondary species in the vernal, estival and serotinal aspects of the prairies respectively.
ref: 1898 June 15, Roscoe Pound, Frederic E[dward] Clements, “A Method of Determining the Abundance of Secondary Species”, in Conway MacMillan, editor, Minnesota Botanical Studies: Reports of the Survey and Bulletin of the Department (Botanical Series; IV), volume II, Minneapolis, Minn.: Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, →OCLC, page 19:
text: Whenever societies are well developed, they regularly manifest a fairly definite seasonal sequence, producing what have long been known as aspects[…]. As phenomena of the growing season, these were first distinguished as early spring or prevernal, vernal proper, estival, and serotinal or autumnal, but there may also be a hiemal aspect, especially for animals, in correspondence with an actual and not merely a calendar winter as in California.
ref: 1936, Frederic E[dward] Clements, “Nature and Structure of the Climax”, in A[rthur] G[eorge] Tansley, editor, Journal of Ecology, volume XXIV, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press [for the British Ecological Society], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 276:
text: My knuckles and my bony wrists / show early signs of drying out; / […] / The night condenses into me, allays / the bonds of my serotinal blight. / Count Dracula and I share in this flight: / we seek moist shadows underneath the quays, / in marrow-darkness bid our bodies twist.
ref: 1983, Philip K. Jason, “Body Language”, in Near the Fire: Poems, Takoma Park, Md.: Dryad Press, →ISBN, stanza 2, page 67:
text: In these population dynamic trends obvious differences exist between the aestival and serotinal aspects.
ref: 1986, Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca, volume 83, Prague: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 114:
text: 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[…].
ref: [1995, Robert J. Whelan, “Survival of Individual Organisms”, in The Ecology of Fire (Cambridge Studies in Ecology), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Cutting across the wide range of seasonal systems in different countries, ecologists have their own more-or-less universal system, at least in temperate regions, for describing animal behaviour. There are six of these ecological seasons, […] Late summer, serotinal, is from mid-February to mid-March, still in my summer but breaking into Vivaldi autumn. […] [I]t doesn't gel with me as a way of tracking the seasonal changes here in Australia.
ref: 2014, Timothy J. Entwisle, “Sprummer, the Cranky One”, in Sprinter and Sprummer: Australia’s Changing Seasons, Collingwood, Melbourne, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 77:
text: can we let all of this short life's / vestigial metaphors fade away. Prepare ourselves / the taking for granted of most everything – start our disservice to memory / and bid adieu to the old melancholy of the serotinal dusk.
ref: 2014, Juan-Paolo Perre, “Águas de Março: Elis Regina & Tom Jobim”, in A Confederacy of Joy: Poems (The Legacy Poetry Prize Series), Los Angeles, Calif.; London: Siena Press, →ISBN, part V, page 97:
text: With the warm, serotinal weather continuing in September, the deserted beaches become a poignantly vacant stage for summer's last drama, its decline.
ref: 2019, Christopher Dewdney, “Apollo’s Chariot: The Seasons”, in 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of the Atmosphere and Its Weather, London: Bloomsbury Sigma, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 186:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: autumnal
brumal
estival
hibernal
hiemal
prevernal
vernal
glosses: Occurring in or pertaining to late summer.
Related terms: late bloomer
serotine
serotinous
serotiny