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Another word for diurnal

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    regular

    daily

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Sentence Examples

  • the diurnal inequality is shown for " winter " and " summer " respectively.

  • Some are nocturnal, some diurnal; some catch their prey by speed of foot, some by cunningly lying hid, some by means of silken nets.

  • This is one of the reasons why in the figures for the annual and diurnal variations in Tables I., II.

  • He also found a marked diurnal variation, A being considerably greater between 3 and 5 A.M.

  • Thus he separates the birds of prey into three great groups - (I) the ordinary Diurnal forms, including the Falconidae and Vulturidae of the systematist of his time; but distinguishing the American Vultures from those of the Old World; (2) Gypogeranus, the secretary-bird; and (3) the owls (q.v.).

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