noctilucous

English edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from New Latin noctilūcus.

Adjective edit

noctilucous (comparative more noctilucous, superlative most noctilucous)

(obsolete) Shining in the night; luminescent.
noctilucous plankton

Translations edit

luminescent

French: noctiluque (fr)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “noctilucous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)