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Definition of Nocturnally
1. Adverb. At night. "Nocturnally active bird"
Definition of Nocturnally
1. adv. By night; nightly.
Definition of Nocturnally
1. Adverb. During the night ¹
2. Adverb. Every night. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nocturnally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nocturnally
Literary usage of Nocturnally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"These are nocturnally protective colors. The file-fishes, when asleep, often lean
up obliquely against the glass of the aquaria, with the belly resting upon ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... dark colors are nocturnally protective. The common squid, when resting quietly
on the bottom, late at night, and apparently asleep, takes on its darkest ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"They first Jived upon Aphides, later upon flies, and they were alert nocturnally.
About the beginning of October they left the fronds of their fernery and ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1880)
"... and a small unrecognised quadruped which nocturnally purloins a beef-bone, we
meet with no creature more obnoxious than ourselves. ..."
5. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"... diamonds in the proportionate sizes to adorn nocturnally her hair and her
person, over mousseline of deep mourning-violet with gold dots in the surface. ..."
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