Sunday, 11 August 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Diurnal

di-ur-nal



adjective :: Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night, recurring every day.



"During the day the animals obsequiously followed the shadow of the smallest tree as it moved round the stem with the diurnal roll; and when the milkers came they could hardly stand still for the flies." --Hardy, Thomas

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