Spring Vocabulary List
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balmy
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warm, calm, and pleasant
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bloom
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to produce flowers
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equinox
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a day when day and night are the same length
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germinate
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to begin to grow : SPROUT
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hatch
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to emerge from an egg, pupa, or chrysalis
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May Day
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May 1 celebrated as a springtime festival and in some countries as Labor Day
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maypole
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a tall pole decorated with ribbons and flowers that forms a center for May Day sports and dances
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metamorphosis
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a major change in the form or structure of some animals or insects that happens as the animal or insect becomes an adult
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pollen
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the very fine usually yellow dust that is produced by a plant and that is carried to other plants of the same kind usually by wind or insects so that the plants can produce seeds
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prune
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to cut off the parts of a woody plant that are dead or not wanted
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sapling
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a young tree
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slicker
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a long, loose raincoat
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sprout
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to produce new leaves, buds, etc.
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vernal
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of, relating to, or occurring in the spring