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avernal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avernal
Avernal \A*ver"nal\, Avernian \A*ver"ni*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.
Wiktionary
avernal
a. Avernian
Usage examples of "avernal".
He, too, was garbed in the same black blackness as the flesh of the horse, as if he had stepped from some Avernal lake and its waters clung to him, becoming satin, and metal.