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Definition
glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)
- At the same time he found the bonfire a beautiful sight — luminous, like a Christmas tree, but a Christmas tree on fire.p. 18.3
- Even in Snowman's boyhood there were luminous green rabbits, though they weren't this big and they hadn't yet slipped their cages and bred with the wild population, and become a nuisance.p. 96.1
- They waited for Oryx to come out of the shower room, where she was removing her protective spray, and, Crake added, her luminous-green gel contact lenses: the Crakers would have found her brown eyes off-putting.p. 310.9
There are no more uses of "luminous" in Oryx and Crake.
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