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noctilucine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
noc-tilu-cine
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A nitrogenous substance in fireflies, glowworms and marine animals, once believed to be responsible for their luminescence.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Latin noctilūca (“firefly”) + -ine. Term coined by British scientist Thomas Lamb Phipson (1833–1908). It appeared first in his article On noctilucine, the phosphorescent principle of luminous animals, published in The chemical new, vol. 32, no. 832, on November 5, 1875.

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noctilucin (alternative)

Questions

What does noctilucine mean?
A nitrogenous substance in fireflies, glowworms and marine animals, once believed to be responsible for their luminescence.
Where does noctilucine come from?
From Latin noctilūca (“firefly”) + -ine. Term coined by British scientist Thomas Lamb Phipson (1833–1908). It appeared first in his article On noctilucine, the phosphorescent principle of luminous animals, published in The chemical new, vol. 32, no. 832, on November 5, 1875.

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