Pertaining to or occurring in late summer.The serotinal orange moon signaled the beginning of autumn
1983, Philip K. Jason, Near the Fire, Dryad Press, p. 67the night condenses into me, allays the bonds of my serotinal blight.Count Dracula and I share in this flight:we seek moist shadows underneath the quays,in marrow-darkness bid our bodies twist.
1986, Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca, Publishing House of the Academy, vol. 83, p. 114In these population dynamic trends obvious differences exist between the aestival and serotinal aspects.
1995, Robert J. Whelan, The Ecology of Fire, Cambridge University Press, p. 96Botanists use the word serotinous to describe late-blossoming, and serotinal refers to the late-summer season of the year, especially used in descriptions of life-histories of freshwaterorganisms (Allaby 1985).
