Definition of "hibernal" []

• Of or relating to winter. (adjective)

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• "* I continued to speed walk past the sleepy kumquat tree, both keenly aware of and hopefully oblivious to its "hibernal" state."
• "Moreover, there is no doubt that the militants are in their seasonal hibernal phase, making their annual return to Pakistan where they will rest until the fighting season begins again in the following spring."
• "Beaten in our hibernal caves, we were venturing out with an emphatic olé oollée!"