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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

जैविक संदीप्ति

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jaivik sandipti

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bioluminescence/ˌbaɪ.oʊˌluː.mɪˈnɛs.əns/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"कुछ जीवों में जैविक संदीप्ति अंधेरे में चमक पैदा करती है।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The production and emission of light by a living organism as the result of a chemical reaction.

    "The bioluminescence of the deep-sea fish attracted both prey and mates in the pitch-black water."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek 'bios' meaning life and the Latin 'lumen' meaning light, combined with the suffix '-escence' indicating a process or state of beginning to be. Coined in the 19th century in scientific literature to describe the biochemical production of light by living organisms.

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