Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In phosphorescent animals, the semifluid substance which causes light.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology A fat-like substance in certain marine animals, giving them their phosphorescent properties.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties.
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- Latin (Wiktionary)
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