Word: fungi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They include sponges, jellyfish, earthworms, brittle stars, crustaceans, insects, spiders, molluscs, squid, marine worms, hydroids, siphonophores, sea pens, cteno-phores, corallines, myriapods, balanoglos-sids, ascidians, fish. There are also two kinds of luminous plants-certain bacteria and fungi. These are responsible for the dim shining of damp wood and stale meat, the ghastly glow occasionally seen on human corpses...