juvenal

See also: Juvenal

English

Etymology

From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).

Adjective

juvenal

Of a young bird, that has its first flying plumage

Derived terms

postjuvenal

Noun

juvenal (plural juvenals)

A juvenal bird.
(obsolete) A youth.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
  How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my tender juvenal?

Related terms

juvenile

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