hibernal

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This all helps explain that despite the striking contrast between a largely unaffected Australian summer and the hibernal catastrophes unfolding elsewhere, there is little hubris.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2021

In 2009, Serge Lutens released Fille en Aiguilles, a cult hit that smells like a Christmas tree farm, and slowly the hibernal trend began to trickle through the indie perfume world.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2018

It turns out to be a swell place for a hibernal vacation.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2016

The people who stage the Millrose Games, an indoor track meet that has been an annual hibernal rite in the Big Apple since 1908, understand the quandary.

From Newsweek • Feb. 13, 2015

If the hibernal lethargy be observed, both in cold-blooded and in hot-blooded animals, we shall be less surprised to learn, that these two classes furnish alike examples of a summer-sleep.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von