nocturnal
adjective/nɑkˈtɜrnəl/
Frequency rank: #10,198 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
active during the night rather than the day.
Example sentence
Owls are nocturnal creatures that hunt for food after dark.
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