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SPRING EQUINOX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
March 21
Synonyms:
March equinox; spring equinox; vernal equinox
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("spring equinox" is a kind of...):
equinox (either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spring equinox"):
Noruz; Nowrooz; Nowruz ((Persian) the new year holiday in Iran and Azerbaijan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and parts of India and among the Kurds; comes at the vernal equinox)
Holonyms ("spring equinox" is a part of...):
Mar; March (the month following February and preceding April)
spring; springtime (the season of growth)
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