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hemeral en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Héh₂mr̥ Proto-Hellenic *ā́mər Ancient Greek ἦμαρ (êmar) Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēméra)bor. English hemeral Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Daily; circadian; cyclical, with a period of 24 hours
    • Photostimulation at 22 weeks of age was done with either a normal, hemeral day (14 hours of light; 10 hours of darkness) or a long ahemeral day (14 hours of light; 14 hours of darkness). 2003, Frank Edwin Robinson, Gaylene Marie Fasenko, Robert Allen Renema, New Developments in Reproduction and Incubation of Broiler Chickens, page 116:

Deriveds

ahemeral · trihemeral

Relateds

ephemeral · cathemeral