Adjective:

இரவிற்குறிய, இரவில் நடமாடும்,

nocturnal தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

இரவில் நடமாடும் உயிரினம் என்பதால், இருளிலும் சிறப்பாகப் பார்க்கக்கூடிய அளவுக்குக் கண்கள் அமைந்துள்ளன.

இந்த கோட்டிகள், இரவில் நடமாடும் ஊனுண்ணியான ரக்கூன் குடும்பத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவை.

இரவில் நடமாடும் இவை ஒளியின் வெளிச்சத்தால் ஈர்க்கப்படுகிற விட்டில் பூச்சிகள்.

இதைப் போன்றவையே பூசாரிகளுக்கு வழங்கும் பரிசுகளும் மற்றும் இரவில் நடமாடும் இரத்தக் காட்டேரிகளுக்கு நரபலி அளிப்பதும்.

ஜாகுவார்களைப் பொதுவாக இரவில் நடமாடும் விலங்குகளாகவே சித்தரிக்கின்றனர்.

nocturnal's Usage Examples:

It is nowhere abundant, but is found over the northern parts of Europe and Asia, and is a quiet, inoffensive animal, nocturnal and solitary in its habits, sleeping by day in its burrow, and issuing forth at night to feed on roots, beech-mast, fruits, the eggs of birds, small quadrupeds, frogs and insects.

After the sun sets lights mounted in the hull of the vessel illuminate the reef and offer the opportunity to view the island's nocturnal sea life, including Kona's famous manta rays.

They are mainly nocturnal, and subsist chiefly on bark and twigs or the roots of water plants.

nocturnal hypoglycaemia with insulin aspart compared with soluble human insulin.

Their habits are nocturnal, and during the daytime they cling to the trunks or limbs of trees head downwards in a state of repose.

The larvae of several nocturnal Lepidoptera feed upon the leaves of the willows, and the trunk of the sallow is often injured by the perforations of the lunar hornet sphinx (Trochilium crabroniforme).

Nearly all geckos are nocturnal and the pupil contracts into a vertical slit, except in a few diurnal kinds, e.

In habits the binturong is nocturnal and arboreal, inhabiting forests, and living on small vertebrates, worms, insects and fruits.

The power and grandeur of these nocturnal concerts is inconceivably striking and pleasing to the hunter's ear.

About the size of a large domestic fowl, they are birds of nocturnal habit, sleeping, or at least inactive, by day, feeding mostly on earth-worms, but occasionally swallowing berries, though in captivity they will eat flesh suitably minced.

It is a nocturnal or crepuscular animal, generally sleeping during the day, but showing considerable activity by night.

Very few of these nocturnal carnivores are now alive to trouble flocks.