luciferous

adj — 2 senses

adj

Etymology Borrowed from Latin lucifer (“light-bearing”) (from lux, lucis (“light”)) + the suffix -ous.

illuminating; providing light.

Figuratively Illuminating; offering insight.

[I]t affords a very pleasant object through the Microscope, and may, perhaps, upon further examination, prove very luciferous.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXIV:

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