nocturnal
Meaning of nocturnal
- done, occurring, or active at night.
most owls are nocturnal
late 15th century: from late Latin nocturnalis, from Latin nocturnus ‘of the night’, from nox, noct- ‘night’.
Information about nocturnal
- It is an adjective.
- The plural form of nocturnal is: nocturnals.
- Languages in which nocturnal is used:
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Hyphenation of nocturnal
noc-tur-nal
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- nocturnal is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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