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• It was once assumed that dasyurids made little use of visual communications because they are nocturnal.2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 67. From the entry dasyurid
• Folklore, nocturnal action and assignation, marine and maritime life: all would be otherwise.2019, Oliver Morton, The Moon: A History for the Future, The Economist Books, →ISBN, →LCCN. From the entry moonless
• The most abundant were fifteen-centimetre-long nocturnal eaters of insects and fruit known as adapisoriculids.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 52. From the entry adapisoriculid
• He believed nocturnal track work produced great times on race day.2011, H. G. Nelson, My Life in Shorts, Pan Macmillan Australia, unnumbered page. From the entry hit-out
• Pademelons are small kangaroo-like marsupials that prefer solitary nocturnal life in the rainforest.2008, Barbara A. Holzman, Tropical Forest Biomes, page 122. From the entry pademelon
• Moore’s nocturnal lights, of wearing black clothes so overwashed that they start to look gray.2007 January 15, Janet Maslin, “The Vampire Wears Flannel, and He Cheats on His Tan”, in New York Times. From the entry overwash
• These include the first records of nocturnal foot-flagging and foot-flagging displays exhibited outside a rainforest environment.1992 June, Stephen J Richards, Christina James, “Foot-flagging displays of some Australian frogs”, in Memoirs of the Queensland Museum…. From the entry foot-flagging
• I was a sleepwalker, incapable of controlling or recalling my nocturnal activities.1989, Elaine K. Stirling, Sleepwalker, page 184. From the entry sleepwalker
• These patients may improve by day only to relapse at night (nocturnal delirium or sundowner's syndrome).1977, Jules Hymen Masserman, Current Psychiatric Therapies, page 179. From the entry sundowner
• My companions rose one by one and emptied their nocturnal accumulations of urine into the seatless toilet.1970, William Furber, Make Love, Not Water, page 141. From the entry seatless
• Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions.1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και…. From the entry sole
• These, apart from nocturnal ambulism, are the simplest conditions of systematised partial waking.1916, Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long, Analytical Psychology. From the entry ambulism
• How do they hide their wild undernature, their inventive nocturnal selves, put on their clothes and go out about their business?2014, Lia Mills, Fallen. From the entry undernature
• The impact of syrphids has seldom been assessed and their role may be underestimated due to their nocturnal feeding behavior.2012, Vaughn M. Walton, Kent M. Daane, Pia Addison, “Biological Control of Arthropods and Its Application in Vineyards”, in Noubar J.…. From the entry syrphid
• Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.2007, Jonathan Elphick, The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds, page 72. From the entry vireo
• The gladiator heelwalker (Tyrannophasma gladiator) is a ferocious nocturnal predator.2007, Naskrecki, Piotr, The smaller majority : the hidden world of the animals that dominate the tropics, page 247. From the entry heelwalker
• This "noyau" pattern is found among various nocturnal strepsirrhines.2000, Sergio M. Pellis, Andrew N. Iwaniuk, “Adult-Adult Play in Primates: Comparative Analyses of Its Origin, Distribution and Evolution”…. From the entry noyau
• The very smell of nocturnal passion, the toothmarks of the prey, the sweaty depression of the inevitable dawns.1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13. From the entry toothmark
• They are desert animals, primarily nocturnal in nature.1984, Norma J. Persson, God and Nature, A Book of Devotions for Christians Who Love Wildlife, page 75. From the entry long-eared jerboa
• This pattern of EEG and respiratory changes has been observed during both diurnal and nocturnal sleep in Pickwickian patients.1975, Morton F. Reiser, Organic disorders and psychosomatic medicine, volume 4, page 866. From the entry pickwickian
• The least weasel is active both summer and winter, and although primarily nocturnal, it frequently hunts in the daytime.1961, Hartley H. T. Jackson, “Family Mustelidae, Weasels and Allies”, in Mammals of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin…. From the entry least weasel
• They are small nocturnal forms with a lichenous growth which often gives a greenish tinge to their gray hair.1933, Alfred Sherwood Romer, chapter 9, in Man and the Vertebrates, 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, published 1937, page 206. From the entry lichenous
• Bioluminescence from microscopic organisms creates sea-sparkle, a globally occurring, nocturnal phenomenon of blue sparkling light in breaking waves or around moving objects.2019, Thomas M. Schmidt, Encyclopedia of Microbiology, page 526. From the entry sea sparkle
• Those years of nocturnal study had left their mark, and Karamat Lone was at his most productive when there was no glimmer of natural sunlight.2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 103. From the entry windowlessness
• Thomas et al. show that the animal is nocturnal with their foraging habits during the scotic phase after the onset of darkness.2001, BB Thomas, MM Oommen, “Constant light and blinding effects on reproduction of male South Indian gerbils”, in J Exp Zool. From the entry scotic
• They find the village of Chillingbourne being terrorised by the 'glueman', a nocturnal figure who pours glue into the hair of girls consorting with servicemen.1998, James Chapman, The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-45, page 240. From the entry glueman
• Easy access to nightlife necessary as well as convenient: mashed potato-ey beds and a vaguely mildewy bathroom give incentive to be nocturnal.1994, Let’s Go, Inc., edited by Rachel Geman and Brian Kaplan, Let’s Go: The Budget Guide to Spain & Portugal, 1994, New York, N.Y.: St.…. From the entry mashed potato-ey
• The nocturnal sounds of the mountains were new to him, yet they fell upon his ears like the soft voice of a half-forgotten love.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 81. From the entry coughing
• That does not include the more than $20 billion spent on nocturnal accouterments like pillowtop mattresses, adjustable beds, hypoallergenic pillows, white-noise machines and monogrammed cashmere pajamas.2007 February 1, Natasha Singer, “Hey, Sleepy, Want to Buy a Good Nap?”, in New York Times. From the entry pillowtop
• A pirate broadcast replaced the regular program; it called for four days of demonstrations, plastic explosions, nocturnal casserolades and complete stoppages of traffic in Algiers, Oran, Bône and Constantine.1968, Geoffrey Bocca, The Secret Army, Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall. From the entry casserolade

Meaning of nocturnal

1. adjective Of a person, creature, group, or species, primarily active during the night.
2. adjective Of an occurrence, taking place at night, nightly.
3. noun A person or creature that is active at night.

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How do you use nocturnal in a sentence?

Nocturnal is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “A rather different instrument was the nocturnal: it enabled you to tell the time at night, provided you knew the date, from the position of the stars in the constellation of the Great Bear, which rotate around the Pole Star.”

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“a suspicious nocturnal outing”

What does nocturnal mean?

Nocturnal means of a person, creature, group, or species, primarily active during the night.