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  • adjective biology, biochemistry Exhibiting bioluminescence.

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  • adjective (of living organisms) emitting light

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Examples

  • Photomorphs perhaps, or some other extraordinary kind of bioluminescent creature, possibly new to science.

    Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988

  • Photomorphs perhaps, or some other extraordinary kind of bioluminescent creature, possibly new to science.

    Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988

  • Its tiny "bioluminescent" body part is lodged permanently within its shell, but the shell amplifies the light, and the faint glow it produces illuminates the whole shell surface.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • Its tiny "bioluminescent" body part is lodged permanently within its shell, but the shell amplifies the light, and the faint glow it produces illuminates the whole shell surface.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • Its tiny "bioluminescent" body part is lodged permanently within its shell, but the shell amplifies the light, and the faint glow it produces illuminates the whole shell surface.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • Its tiny "bioluminescent" body part is lodged permanently within its shell, but the shell amplifies the light, and the faint glow it produces illuminates the whole shell surface.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • Its tiny "bioluminescent" body part is lodged permanently within its shell, but the shell amplifies the light, and the faint glow it produces illuminates the whole shell surface.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • Its tiny "bioluminescent" body part is lodged permanently within its shell, but the shell amplifies the light, and the faint glow it produces illuminates the whole shell surface.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • Its tiny "bioluminescent" body part is lodged permanently within its shell, but the shell amplifies the light, and the faint glow it produces illuminates the whole shell surface.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • But if architects can overcome these limitations and make the connection between artificial structures and natural ones, we could harness 'metabolic materials' such as bioluminescent bacteria that produce light through biochemistry, for example, and reduce our energy drain on the grid.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

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