Luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly)

Usage examples of bioluminescence.

The bioluminescence spreads throughout the roots, until they glow like a vast system of fiberoptics.

The only light was the fetid bioluminescence coming off the heaps of garbage.

They wandered onward, and the green bioluminescence of the Integument began to die down.

There was no light except the bioluminescence of his captors, apparently waiting overhead.

She seemed at ease with her bizarre parasite, utterly human except for the bioluminescence in her hands.

He checked every day for changes to his body but so far all he had developed was an absence of body hair and bioluminescence around his tattoos.

The clean-up team seemed to be taking great interest in the bioluminescence in his hands.

The only light now came from the bioluminescence of microscopic creatures floating in the heavy air.

For a few moments they were silent, and their bioluminescence curiously subdued.

In moonless dark, lights pulsed below the waters, like the bioluminescence of benthic things magnified many hundreds of times.

Through the semitransparent steelglass he could see the blurred images of people moving in an insectlike mass, and the large globes of bioluminescence suspended from the ceilings, giving everything a radiant cast.

Now that it was in the deep darkness of the cave, the creature was shining brightly with its own internally generated light This was not the phosphorescence of putrefaction, but a deeply originated glow which shone through the deep and waxlike skin and hinted of luminous reactions unconnected with bioluminescence.

To Molly, this seemed not to be the usual eye-shine of animals in the dark, but a phenomenon unique to this night, not simple light refraction, not bioluminescence, but something of a wondrous character: nimbuses pooled in sockets, signifying sanctification.

Gengineered philodendrons, their bioluminescence just barely visible in the shadows beneath their leaves, grew from pots near the wall and promised a night-time illumination bright enough to let one find one's way from room to room.