lumen
noun
the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. lm
lumina
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pluralof lumen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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On page 40 appear the following lines:— Terribili squarlore Charon eni plurina mento Canities inculta jucet; staut lumina flaurina Nor is he happier in his quotations from Italian, or in his other displays of learning.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various
Nuclei of Sertoli cells, which outnumber the spermatogonia, are evident at the periphery of the tubules and the clear cytoplasm of the cells extends into and nearly fills the lumina.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler
In other cases Fungi, and even Bacteria, have been found to have made their way into the principal vessels, the lumina of which they stop up, thus reducing the transpiration current.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
Dr. Rostafinski called the large open meshes of the net 'oka', eyes; lumina let us say! quite uniform they are in 9 and 10, much less so in 8.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
A quaint old rhyme says of the plant:— "Nobilis est ruta quia lumina reddit acuta."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
