nerval

UK: /nɛrval/ US: 'Nerval': (ner val′); 'nerval': (nûr′vəl)

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nerv•al  (nûr′vəl), adj. 

1. Anatomy neural.

• Late Latin nervālis of, belonging to nerves, equivalent. to Latin nerv(us) nerve + -ālis -al¹
• 1630–40

Ner•val  (ner val′), n. 

Gé•rard de  (zhā rar′ də), (Gérard Labrunie), 1808–55, French writer.

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Nerval / nɛrval/ noun

1. Gérard de ( ʒerar də ), real name Gérard Labrunie. 1808–55, French poet, noted esp for the sonnets of mysticism, myth, and private passion in Les Chimères (1854)