| Front | hiemal \HY-uh-muhl\ |
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| Back | adjective Of or relating to winter. [From Latin hiems (winter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghei- (winter), which is the ancestor of words such as chimera, hibernate, and the Himalayas (from Sanskrit him (snow) + alaya (abode)). Earliest documented use: 1560.] "Painted turtles tend to move into deeper water during the autumnal season, and dormancy occurs during the hiemal period." - Carl Ernst and Jeffrey Lovich; Turtles of the United States and Canada; The Johns Hopkins University Press; 2009. |
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