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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
luminesce .
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Examples
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Dried Cypridina, even if it is many decades old, luminesces when crushed and mixed with water.
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# Shilohon 26 Feb 2008 at 4:59 pm purpluminescant: something that is so beautifully purple it luminesces
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Her dorsal spine lashes; the lure at its end, a glowing worm-shaped thing, luminesces furiously.
Starfish 1999
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