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glow-worm

noun

  1. a European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, the females and larvae of which bear luminescent organs producing a greenish light: family Lampyridae
  2. any of various other beetles or larvae of the family Lampyridae


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Example Sentences

And the bird offers to console her, and the glow-worm offers his light to guide her to her lover.

As he came near that smothered glow-worm of a street-lamp it assumed for him the betraying glare of a huge spot-light.

Farewell; the glow-worm shows the morning to be near, and begins to pale his ineffectual fire: Adieu!

Of the insects thus singularly provided, the common Glow-worm (Lampyris noctiluca) is the most familiar instance.

So saying, the young Cricket seized the little Glow-worm round the waist and tickled her.

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