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

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sea fire

The British could not cover the troops from sea fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

But they worship the sun, the moon, the host of heaven, the rivers, the sea, fire, air, and what not.

From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by William Alexander Clouston

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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“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 Edward S. Hodgson