Definition of "luminesce" []

• To be or become luminescent. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I just do my research to understand why jellyfish luminesce."
• "I just do my research to understand why jellyfish luminesce, and why that protein fluoresce?"
• "The dogs practically luminesce in the gorgeous, precise prose with which Wroblewski conjures them."