{
  "id": "spring.season",
  "term": "spring",
  "sense": "season",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the season of growth is a period of time and change and growth",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "change.process",
      "growth.development",
      "period.temporal",
      "season.climate"
    ],
    "interaction": "change together with growth and the bounds of a temporal period form a recurring cycle influenced by climatic drift",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal recurrence with biological renewal",
      "cyclical environmental transition",
      "seasonal rhythm"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C. bloom each March, marking the city's seasonal ecological shift.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The annual spring thaw of the Lena River in Siberia reshapes transport routes as ice gives way to navigable water.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "Farmers in Punjab begin wheat harvesting in April, aligning with the end of rabi season and onset of spring.",
      "domain": "agriculture"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "season.climate",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "spring is a type of season"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "sprang",
    "spring",
    "springing",
    "springs",
    "sprung"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive components 'period.temporal' and 'season.climate' to align record with definition; interaction rewritten for coherence. Definition preserved as correct and sufficient."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-spring.season"
}