Citations:noctiluca

English citations of noctiluca

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• 1897, Lafcadio Hearn, Gleanings in Buddha fields : studies of hand and soul in the Far East, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 209:

  He is obliged to consider the relation of our own petty sphere to the great swarming of suns and systems as no more than the relation of a single noctiluca to the phosphorescence of a sea.

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• 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 4.6.37–40:

  rite Latonae puerum canentes,
  rite crescentem face Noctilucam,
  prosperam frugum celeremque pronos
  volvere mensis.

• 1679, Elisha Coles, A dictionary, English-Latin, and Latin-English, London: George Sawbridg [et al.], →OCLC, unnumbered page:

  Noctiluca, æ. f. shining by night, the Moon, a Candle.

• 1809, John Mair, edited by David Phineas Adams, The Tyro's dictionary, Latin and English: comprehending the more usual primitives of the Latin tongue, revised and corrected from the latest London edition, New York: Evert Duyckinck, →OCLC, page 108:

  Noctĭlūca, æ. f. (lux.) the moon, a candle.