The plant Silene chalcedonica (syn. Lychnis chalcedonica), with bright red flowers.

plural of lightning strike

A lightning bolt, stroke of lightning, one of the events during an electrical storm when lightning strikes (an object on) the ground or an aircraft in flight.

fork lightning

plural of fork lightning

Lightning that contains bolts that branch.

plural of forked lightning

plural of lightning bolt

The condition, late in pregnancy, of having intense pain shoot through one's pelvic region, especially due to the baby's head lowering and bumping into one's pelvis.

(volcanology, meteorology) Electrical discharge that occurs during a volcanic eruption, caused by a build-up of static electricity in colliding ejecta (such as ash and debris).