All 3 Uses of
luminous
in
Oryx and Crake
- 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. 96.0
- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.