Nocturnal - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|nɑːkˈtɜːrnl|
Brit.
|nɒkˈtɜːn(ə)l|
adjective
- 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
- of or relating to or occurring in the nightnocturnal plants have flowers that open at night and close by day
nocturnal darkness
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...he bought a new telescope so he could pursue his favorite nocturnal hobby of astronomy...
Hamsters are nocturnal creatures.
Rebecca paid a nocturnal visit to the flat.
...a nocturnal visitant that must have been the shade of his late brother, crying out for vengeance against his murderers...
The leaves assumed their nocturnal dependent position.
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