Nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs

Usage examples of firefly.

Standing on her toes, she was precariously leaning into their ten-foot Christmas tree, adjusting one of the numerous tiny lights that decorated it like a swarm of brightly colored fireflies.

I smashed them into globular fragments that danced and eddied in the air like little transparent Fireflies before breaking apart and whirling away.

Dots of flame circled the Laputa like swarms of fireflies, some suddenly deorbiting to come arcing down on the ship.

Lumpeyins are apparently bioluminescent like the dinoflagellates, black dragonfish, fireflies, and many other organisms on Earth.

Quinn, Firefly, Bon Marche, Dom Pedro, Cee Squared, Omega, El NidoThorby resolved to see how Mata was doingSaint Christopher, Vega, Vega Prime, Galactic Banker, Romany Lass .

While the capsules still floated high above the ground, small openings ejected newly revived impregnated queens of the honeybee, the Asian carpenter bee, and the bumblebee, as well as fireflies, caddis flies, nonbiting midges, cockroaches, and lac bugs.

Even the pallid light shed by the nodule that dangled, like a third eye, from the front of its platycephalic skull threw no more than a firefly sheen on the stretched, squamous green of its hide.

And that immediately suggested a possible synchronization mechanism: In a congregation of flashing fireflies, every one is continually sending and receiving signals, shifting the rhythms of others and being shifted by them in turn.

The furniture -- armchairs, a low sofa, small rabies -- looked as though it had been cast in glass, and inside the semitransparent material swarms of fireflies circulated freely, sometimes dispersed, then joined again into streams, so that a luminous blood seemed to course within the furniture, pale green with pink sparks mixed in.

They opened up beers, and as quiet settled on the neighborhood and fireflies lighted up the deepening blue of twilight, they told their stories.

There was nothing to be seen except the pearly whirl of the Galaxy below, the distant external firefly galaxies, the smoky yellow blobs of the kugelblitz.

Mosquitoes are actually flies, but dragonflies, butterflies, damselflies, fireflies, mayflies and stoneflies are not.

Like a million fireflies, sparks fly across the dark city, inseminating every place they land with a germ of fire.

It was too early in the year for fireflies and there could be no other source of light-nothing but woods and pastures in all directions.

Nothing but SUM could have controlled the firefly dance of a million aircars among the towers: or, for that matter, have maintained the entire city, from nuclear powerplants through automated factories, physical and economic distribution networks, sanitation, repair, services, education, culture, order, everything as one immune immortal organism.