Capable of producing light independently without external energy, describing an organism or material with self-generating light properties.
From the noun 'autoluminescence' with the addition of '-ent' (quality or state of). Formed in scientific English in the 20th century.
Certain deep-sea creatures are autoluminescent, creating their own eerie glow in the pitch-black ocean where sunlight never reaches—evolution's way of bringing a disco to the abyss.
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