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phosphorescence
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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In essence, over a period of time several ships had encountered "an enormous thing" at sea, a long spindle—shaped object, sometimes giving off a phosphorescent glow, infinitely bigger and faster than any whale.†
Chpt 1
This was no mere phosphorescent phenomenon, that much was unmistakable.†
Chpt 1
"It's only a cluster of phosphorescent particles!" exclaimed one of the officers.†
Chpt 1
Then it retreated two or three miles, leaving a phosphorescent trail comparable to those swirls of steam that shoot behind the locomotive of an express train.†
Chpt 1
Sometimes I tried to peer through the dense gloom, which was broken only by the phosphorescent flickers coming from our movements.†
Chpt 1
The propeller churned the waves with mathematical regularity, sometimes emerging above the surface and throwing phosphorescent spray to great heights.†
Chpt 1
From its glare and whiteness, I recognized the electric glow that had played around this underwater boat like some magnificent phosphorescent phenomenon.†
Chpt 1
That explains the phosphorescent glow from this so—called narwhale that so puzzled us scientists!†
Chpt 1
If we accept the hypotheses of the microbiologist Ehrenberg—who believes that these underwater depths are lit up by phosphorescent organisms—nature has certainly saved one of her most prodigious sights for residents of the sea, and I could judge for myself from the thousandfold play of the light.†
Chpt 1
But we had to keep walking, and we went forward while overhead there scudded schools of Portuguese men—of—war that let their ultramarine tentacles drift in their wakes, medusas whose milky white or dainty pink parasols were festooned with azure tassels and shaded us from the sun's rays, plus jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra that, in the dark, would have strewn our path with phosphorescent glimmers!†
Chpt 1
I was stretched out on the seafloor directly beneath some bushes of algae, when I raised my head and spied two enormous masses hurtling by, throwing off phosphorescent glimmers.†
Chpt 1
They were blue sharks, dreadful man—eaters with enormous tails, dull, glassy stares, and phosphorescent matter oozing from holes around their snouts.†
Chpt 1
We also caught a large number of yellow—green gilthead, half a decimeter long and tasting like dorado, plus some flying gurnards, authentic underwater swallows that, on dark nights, alternately streak air and water with their phosphorescent glimmers.†
Chpt 1
The Nautilus had drifted into the midst of some phosphorescent strata, which, in this darkness, came off as positively dazzling.†
Chpt 1
And the power of their light was increased by those glimmers unique to medusas, starfish, common jellyfish, angel—wing clams, and other phosphorescent zoophytes, which were saturated with grease from organic matter decomposed by the sea, and perhaps with mucus secreted by fish.†
Chpt 1
Soon Jidda faded into the shadows of evening, and the Nautilus went back beneath the mildly phosphorescent waters.
Chpt 2 *

phosphorescent = giving a dim glowing light
On the rocky, volcanic seafloor, there bloomed quite a collection of moving flora: sponges, sea cucumbers, jellyfish called sea gooseberries that were adorned with reddish tendrils and gave off a subtle phosphorescence, members of the genus Beroe that are commonly known by the name melon jellyfish and are bathed in the shimmer of the whole solar spectrum, free—swimming crinoids one meter wide that reddened the waters with their crimson hue, treelike basket stars of the greatest beauty, sea fans from the genus Pavonacea with long stems, numerous edible sea urchins of various species, plus green sea anemones with a grayish trunk and a brown disk lost beneath the olive—colored tresses of their†
Chpt 2
Jellyfish, microscopic crustaceans, and sea—pen coral lit it faintly with their phosphorescent glimmers.†
Chpt 2
yellow—tailed gilthead whose flesh is extremely dainty and whose phosphorescent properties give them away in the midst of the waters;†
Chpt 2
Finally, adorned with emerald ribbons and dressed in velvet and silk, golden angelfish passed before our eyes like courtiers in the paintings of Veronese; spurred gilthead stole by with their swift thoracic fins; thread herring fifteen inches long were wrapped in their phosphorescent glimmers; gray mullet thrashed the sea with their big fleshy tails; red salmon seemed to mow the waves with their slicing pectorals; and silver moonfish, worthy of their name, rose on the horizon of the waters like the whitish reflections of many moons.†
Chpt 2
I might add that during the night, the Gulf Stream's phosphorescent waters rivaled the electric glow of our beacon, especially in the stormy weather that frequently threatened us.†
Chpt 2
It drew nearer, always moving toward the phosphorescent glow that signaled the Nautilus's presence.†
Chpt 2

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(1) (phosphorescence)
a soft, dim glow that comes either from a chemical reaction in a living thing or from something that keeps glowing after the light shining on it is gone
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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phosphorescence
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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