glowworm

[gloh-wurm]

glow·worm

[gloh-wurm]
noun
1.
the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
2.
any of various other beetle larvae or wingless females that emit a glow rather than a flash of light.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English. See glow, worm
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Glowworm is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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glowworm

noun
the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly 
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