A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.
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1. Relating to a day; pertaining to the daytime; as diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
2. Daily; happening every day; performed in a day; as a diurnal task.
3. Performed in 24 hours; as the diurnal revolution of the earth.
4. In medicine, an epithet of diseases whose exacerbations are in the day time; as a diurnal fever.
A day-book; a journal. [ See Journal , which is mostly used.]
1. Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
2. Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
3. Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.
4. Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.
5. A daybook; a journal.
6. A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.
7. A diurnal bird or insect.
A journalist. [Not in use.]
A journalist.
Daily; every day.
Daily; every day.
The quality of being diurnal.
1. Continuance during the day.
2. The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.
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