Definition of "fluoresces" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoresce. (verb)

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• "BP's oil mixed with Corexit fluoresces bright orange at night under high-powered ultra-violet lights, revealing areas where beach sand is coated with the mixture that is invisible under daylight conditions."
• "Vivid reds, yellows, and greens can be seen from different angles and the diamond fluoresces with a unique reddish color when exposed to ultraviolet light."
• "In a highly wrought, almost hallucinatory flashback, Peter remembers an adolescent holiday at a lakeside house and a visionary experience he had there, "a sea-swell of feeling, utterly unexpected, a sensation that starts in his bowels and fluoresces through his body, dizzying, giddying.""