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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to the morning, or to matins.
  • [capitalized] Appellative of the second of Professor H. D. Rogers's fifteen subdivisions of the Paleozoic strata in the Appalachian chain, the names of which suggest metaphorically the different natural periods of the day.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to the morning, or to matins; matutinal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective in the morning, relating to the morning

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From French

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