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US
/nɑkˈtɝnəɫ/
]
[ UK /nɒktˈɜːnəl/ ]
[ UK /nɒktˈɜːnəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or occurring in the night
nocturnal darkness -
belonging to or active during the night
nocturnal animals are active at night
nocturnal plants have flowers that open at night and close by day
How To Use nocturnal In A Sentence
- Most nocturnal grazing animals such as deer close their pupil as a horizontal shutter.
- I'm starting to slip back into my nocturnal, staying up very late self again because I was up ages the other night working on my Physics coursework.
- The two lines run through the composition, sometimes parallel, sometimes intertwining, with the second one eventually taking over and ultimately finding its closure in a lush, animalic, fantastically sexy, nocturnal base of amber, musk, civet, patchouli and castoreum. Forgotten Chypres: 7e Sense by Sonya Rykiel and Gianni Versace
- It is a northern animal, nocturnal, and rarely seen, but not uncommon; they are frequently found in ploughed grasslands. Rural Hours
- Beigel, in Virchow's Archives, mentions a cryptorchid of twenty-two who had nocturnal emissions containing spermatozoa and who indulged in sexual congress. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- The platypus and the echidna - a nocturnal, burrowing mammal with a spiny coat, long claws, and no teeth - are the only known living members of a type of animal known as monotremes.
- They can create nocturnal confusion, can result in cognitive and motor impairment, and can increase the risks of falls.
- Most communication systems in luminescent fireflies have been studied in nocturnal species; little is known concerning communication in crepuscular and diurnal species.
- Nocturnal animals sleep by day and hunt by night.
- Owls hooted in the treetops, while other nocturnal animals came out to forage for food.
