Diurnal - What does it mean?
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Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
* Shakespeare
(botany) Said of a flower open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset.
(uncommon) Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
(archaic) Published daily.
A flower that opens only in the day.
(Catholicism) A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins.
(archaic) A diary or journal.
* 1663 ,
(archaic) A daily news publication.
diurnal
English
Adjective
(-)- Most birds are diurnal .
- Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring / Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "diurnal")Synonyms
* (having a daily cycle) circadian (biology)Antonyms
* (happening or active during the day) nocturnal, nightly * (active or open during the day) nocturnalCoordinate terms
* (active or open during the day) crepuscularNoun
(en noun)- He was by birth, some authors write, / A Russian, some a Muscovite, / And 'mong the Cossacks had been bred, / Of whom we in diurnals read.