Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
noctilucent .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shining in the night.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Shining in thenight ;luminescent .
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Examples
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The discovery gave me keener pleasure than I had known in years -- I had suspected it for some time after I found the noctilucous stars on the ceiling of my sitting-room at the palace.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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