noctiluca
IPA: nˈɑktaɪɫˈukʌ
noun
- (obsolete) A firefly, glowworm.
- (obsolete) The moon
- (obsolete) A phosphorescent substance
- Noctiluca scintillans (sea sparkle).
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Examples of "noctiluca" in Sentences
- Infrared Moonset on Universe Today « luna noctiluca Says:
- There are these little single celled organisms called noctiluca.
- Science employs the same term: it calls the lantern-bearer, _Lampyris noctiluca_, LIN.
- The mauve stingers - or Pelagia noctiluca - are tiny but can cover hundreds of thousands of square miles in a single 'bloom'.
- It is spontaneous, for example, in the _Pelagia phosphorea_, but not in the allied _Pelagia noctiluca_, a very common form in the
- Among the Annelid worms a species of _Nereis_, or sea-centipedes, has earned by its phosphorescent property the specific name of _noctiluca_
- Shrimp eat noctiluca, so they evolved the ability, giving away the shrimp's position so that cuttlefish and other predators could catch them.
- The fish and other animals that swim in these waters at night aggitate the noctiluca and the waters glow with what look like the ghosts of fish.
- This property does not belong exclusively to the Medusa noctiluca, which Forskael has described in his Fauna Aegyptiaca, and which Gmelin has applied to the Medusa pelagica of Loefling, notwithstanding its red tentacula, and the brownish tuberosities of its body.
- That pretty sparkler of our summer evenings, so often made the ploughboy's prize, the only brilliant that glitters in the rustic's hat, the glowworm, (_lampyris noctiluca_,) is not found in such numbers with us, as in many other places, where these signal tapers glimmer upon every grassy bank; yet, in some seasons, we have a reasonable sprinkling of them.
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