nocturnal
adjective
of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
nocturnality
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a word derived from
nocturnal.
Example Sentences
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Shafer’s team proposes that for all vertebrates, nocturnality was a survival advantage during catastrophes.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2023
The advantage “could be something about the feeding ecology,” rather than nocturnality per se, agrees Jonathan Payne, a paleontologist at Stanford University.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2023
To conclude, the inference of nocturnality in dinosaurs from scleral ring and orbit morphology is sound.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 22, 2011
