Definitions
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- noun The condition or
habit of being active at night.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Evolution of nocturnality in bats: potential competitors and predators during their early history.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Now taking on increasingly monstrous qualities, a vampire-likeness of achieved full nocturnality, even the sleeper finds his dreams inhabited.
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It's not as easy as you might think, what with the nocturnality and so on.
Kiss and Blog 2010
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"We are just now understanding the nocturnality of many creatures," says Chad Moore, Night Sky Program manager with the National Park Service.
YubaNet.com 2009
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The differences between phyla are particularly difficult to understand, while differences within smaller group sometimes correrelate with territory-size, burrowing vs. surface nesting, diurnality vs. nocturnality, or sedentary vs. migratory life history.
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