BIOLUMINESCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bioluminescent mean? 

• BIOLUMINESCENT (adjective)
  The adjective BIOLUMINESCENT has 1 sense:

1. (of living organisms) emitting light

  Familiarity information: BIOLUMINESCENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOLUMINESCENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of living organisms) emitting light

Context example:

fireflies are bioluminescent

Similar:

light (characterized by or emitting light)

Domain category:

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Derivation:

bioluminescence (luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly))

 Context examples 

An attenuated oncolytic vaccinia virus encoding the light-emitting fusion protein Renilla luciferase-Aequorea green fluorescent protein (RUC-GFP) with potential bioluminescent and antineoplastic activities.

(Light-Emitting Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus GL-ONC1, NCI Thesaurus)

Luc Genes encode Luciferase, flavoprotein enzymes in certain marine crustaceans, fish, bacteria, and insects that catalyze bioluminescent oxidization of Luciferins to an electronically excited compound that emits energy in the form of light.

(Luc Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile using peritrichous flagella, non-spore forming, utilizes ribose and tyrosine, bioluminescent, catalase and lecithinase positive, produces a red, pink or yellow pigment, utilizes citrate as its sole carbon and energy source, oxidase and Voges-Proskauer test negative, and does not reduce nitrate.

(Photorhabdus luminescens, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile using one or more unsheathed polar flagella, urease, arginine dihydrolase, and lipase positive, gelatinase negative, not bioluminescent, does not require NaCl for growth, and utilizes pyruvate, lactate, glutamate, mannose, galactose, cellobiose and glycerate as its sole source of carbon and energy in 0.05% yeast extract.

(Photobacterium damselae, NCI Thesaurus)