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

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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

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 J. W. (John William) Mackail

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 may be the sea, fire, loneliness, the past, the present, the future, hereafter, a wife with an angel’s face and the tongue of the Devil, a rat maybe, or a shadow itself.

From The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables by Seumas O'Brien

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