sea fire

American  

noun

1. a bioluminescent glow produced by phosphorescent marine organisms.

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Etymology

Origin of sea fire

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

The British could not cover the troops from sea fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Me, a hull that had measured such spaces of sea, fire consumed on the land that cut her pines to make me.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

It shone in the shadowy grass, smeared with sea fire as if one of the submarine monsters had crawled into the twilight garden; but it had the head of a dead man.

From The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

But in preparing the ship for sea, fire had not been sufficiently considered.

From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

“Ay, sir, it do look uncommon like it, and no mistake—yes; that’s the sea fire shinin’ to the stroke of oars, right enough,” exclaimed Cutler.

From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Hodgson, Edward S.