What is "bioluminescent"

Usage examples of "bioluminescent".

A servo arm located behind the bar, which glowed with its own colony of bioluminescent bacteria, gently picked up the aerogel cylinder and placed it in sequence behind half a dozen other empties, to be refilled in its turn.

There were common things down there, like little toothless sharks with catlike eyes, and rare things, like anglerfish, which lured their prey with bioluminescent dorsal stalks and ate it with needle teeth that seemed to be made of crystal.

Lumpeyins are apparently bioluminescent like the dinoflagellates, black dragonfish, fireflies, and many other organisms on Earth.

The interior of the ship looked oddly cavern-like and murky, with hazy circles of bioluminescent lichen clinging to the walls and clouds of coma gas swirling through the air and door valves sagging open every two meters.

In the murky green light, the excitement at the opposite end was visible only as a mass of shadows scurrying around behind the window membrane, and even figures in nearby warrens were difficult to see unless they were silhouetted against a patch of bioluminescent wall lichen.

Vale itself, from Paradise, and was bioluminescent in pale blues, grays, and greens.

Nearly three quarters of the planetvast plains, great canyons, mountain ranges that rival the Himalayasare shrouded in perpetual black, broken occasionally by bioluminescent organisms that sparkle with predatory or reproductive intent.

Their equipment for cave fighting included not only modern lamps but also bioluminescent patches.

Below, multicolored brilliance clung to the black margin of the east bank like a colony of bioluminescent algae.

Enhancing the otherworldliness of the place is the fact that whenever you move your hand in front of your face, you disturb the bioluminescent plankton that enrich the water and create a luminous track.

The simple creatures clung to the upper walls by their tiny, scuttlings legs and radiated the soft glow from the bioluminescent compounds in their translucent, distended abdomens, hardly more than the size of Boba Fett's doubled fists.

White teeth reflect the protest pigmentations of our bioluminescent skin as they tear unto us, dragging us upward .

That is the miniature gallium arsenide photon detector, acting as a retina, and the surrounding banded area-sort of like a radial tire-is bioluminescent, and lights the area ahead.