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Bioluminescent

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Adjective

1. bioluminescent

(of living organisms) emitting light

Example Sentences:
'fireflies are bioluminescent'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bioluminescent

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noun
the production of light by living organisms as a result of the oxidation of a light-producing substance (luciferin) by the enzyme luciferase: occurs in many marine organisms, insects such as the firefly, etc

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Bioluminescent

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noun
1. 
the production of light by living organisms, as by fireflies or many deep-water cephalopods
2. 
such light

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bioluminescent

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n.
The emission of visible light by certain living organisms, such as the firefly and various fish, marine invertebrates, fungi, and bacteria. Bioluminescence is caused by chemical reactions.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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