Noun: noctiluca
| Singular | noctiluca |
| Plural | noctilucae; noctilucas |
Sample Sentences
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If a number of noctilucas are punctured with a needle, causing the cells to collapse, and are then subjected to an interrupted current, they respond just as uninjured cells do. [1917, Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington:]
Nouns inflected like noctiluca
serosa,
situla,
ecclesia,
synapticula,
condensed formula,
melopoeia,
pfennig,
failed supernova,
subcosta,
mycoflora,
zonula,
noctiluca,
anurofauna,
veillonella,
dalmatica,
bosenova,
ectomycorrhiza,
microfauna,
lymphoglandula,
un-nova, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin noctilūca. See: Latin Nouns '
noctiluca'.