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Scopeloid :: Scopeloid (a.) Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodae, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent..

Pyrosome :: Pyrosome (n.) Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent..

Noctilucin :: Noctilucin (n.) A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties..

Dipyre :: Dipyre (n.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent..

Phosphorescence :: Phosphorescence (n.) The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.

Phosphoresce :: Phosphoresce (v. i.) To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

Phosphorus :: Phosphorus (n.) Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies..

Phosphoric :: Phosphoric (a.) Phosphorescent.

Phosphoreous :: Phosphoreous (a.) Phosphorescent.

Aethogen :: Aethogen (n.) A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride..

Phosphorescent :: Phosphorescent (n.) A phosphorescent substance.

Phosphorescent :: Phosphorescent (a.) Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat.

Ignis Fatuus :: Ignis fatuus () A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern..

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