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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In phosphorescent animals, the semifluid substance which causes light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties.
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- noun zoology A
fat -likesubstance in certainmarine animals , giving them theirphosphorescent properties.
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