equinoctal

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equinoctal

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alternative, not comparable Alternative spelling of equinoctial (of or relating to an equinox). When the vernal equinoctal sun passed from one zodiacal constellation to the next, an Age ended and a new one began:
alternative, not comparable Alternative spelling of equinoctial (of or relating to an equator). During his last year at Cambridge, Darwin read Alexander von Humboldt's famous Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctal Regions of South America During the Years 1799-1804, a book which awakened in him "a burning zeal […]".

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@misc{equinoctal_2026,
  title = {equinoctal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/equinoctal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}