Juvenal
noun
Decimus Junius Juvenalis, a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.
Juvenal
American
[joo-vuh-nl]
/ ˈdʒu və nl /
noun
Juvenal
1
British
/ ˈdʒuːvɪnəl /
noun
juvenal
2
British
/ ˈdʒuːvɪnəl /
adjective
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Juvenal was a satirist, she says, not an objective reporter; he may have been wryly speculating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Wednesday, Juvenal Solano drove slowly along the cracked roads that border the fields of strawberry and celery that cloak this fertile expanse of Ventura County, his eyes peeled for signs of trouble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
Roman poet Juvenal coined the phrase “bread and circuses” nearly 2,000 years ago for the extravagant entertainment the Roman Empire used to distract attention from imperial policies that caused widespread discontent.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
Congolese lawmaker Juvenal Munobo, a member of parliament's defence and security commission, expressed reservations about the regional force on Twitter.
From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 2022
To this day I look back to William Ramsay's lectures on Roman Antiquities, and readings of Juvenal and Plautus, as more interesting than many a good stage play that I have seen in the theatre....
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
In such trapping, it became apparent that juvenal and young mice suffered from exposure to cold and to heat much more than did subadult or adult mice.
From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Charles L. Douglas
The plastron of a juvenal box turtle is not completely immovable.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler
Juveniles were caught in relatively small numbers because of their restricted movements, and no way to determine prenatal and juvenal mortality was available.
From A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas by Edwin P. Martin
In the juvenal plumage flight feathers of the kites are brown, barred with white, much different in appearance from the dark, slaty plumage of adults.
From Observations on the Mississippi Kite in Southwestern Kansas by Henry S. Fitch
Most juvenal males did not have scrotal testes, and many juveniles that appeared repeatedly in traps from mid-July through late October did not attain breeding condition.
From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Charles L. Douglas
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