Lexicographical Neighbors of Noctilucas
Literary usage of Noctilucas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"Irritated by agitation in any shape or form, the noctilucas at once respond by,
as it were, angry flashes of silvery-greenish light, and it is tp the ..."
2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1862)
"In order to restore to the liquid its original appearance, it Bices to agitate
it slightly, whereby the noctilucas are once ore disseminated throughout the ..."
3. Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art by Thomas William Rolleston (1908)
"Two noctilucas coalesce, and then proceed to divide at right angles to the plane
of contact. This necessarily has the effect of giving to each of the two ..."
4. The Story of Life in the Seas by Sydney John Hickson (1898)
"There seems to be no doubt that, on these occasions, the light . is caused by
these noctilucas, but there are many other minute forms which abound on the ..."
5. Principles of Comparative Physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1854)
"... a tube containing noctilucas swimming in water causes their phosphorescence
to be developed, and to be displayed with augmented intensity for some time. ..."
6. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1887)
"K is devoted specially to Pyrophorus noctilucas, examples having been obtained from
... 55-W describes the larva of Pyrophorus noctilucas—it is luminous, ..."
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