noctiluca

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The blue glow that was emanating from the water along a seashore in Hong Kong was an algal bloom created by Noctiluca scintillans, and it is potentially toxic.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2014

The excitement about the Phosphorus igneus, Boyle’s Icy Noctiluca, was slowly replaced by, or converted into, chemical research.

From History of Phosphorus by Farber, Eduard

Then in the salt water near the surface there are often myriads of minute Noctiluca whose wonderfully phosphorescent little bodies glow like coals of fire when the water is disturbed at night.

From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur

Noctiluca has thus the form of an apple with a long stalk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Noctiluca, nok-ti-lū′ka, n. a phosphorescent marine Infusorian, abundant around the British coasts, one of the chief causes of the phosphorescence of the waves.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various