noctiluca miliaris

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   large bioluminescent marine protozoan

   Synonymsnoctiluca

   Broaderdinoflagellate

   Part ofgenus Noctiluca

Questions about noctiluca miliaris

What does noctiluca miliaris mean?

noctiluca miliaris means "large bioluminescent marine protozoan".

What is another word for noctiluca miliaris?

Close synonyms include noctiluca. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is noctiluca miliaris a common word?

noctiluca miliaris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.