Definition of "vespertine" []

• Of, relating to, or occurring in the evening. (adjective)
• Botany Opening or blooming in the evening. (adjective)
• Zoology Becoming active in the evening, as bats and owls; crepuscular. (adjective)

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• "The Halictidae is one of the four bee families that contains some species that are crepuscular; these halictids are active only at dusk or in the early evening, and therefore technically considered "vespertine"."
• "I cringed away from the man, from the way he looked at me—now patiently, as if encouraging a slow learner; now furiously; now with a pregnant, vespertine calm."
• "Sheols of houris in chems upon divans, (revolted stellas vespertine vesamong them) at a bare (O!) mention of the scaly rybald exclaimed: Poisse!"