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Type of beetle
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glowworm
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Glow worm is the common name for various groups of insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence . They may sometimes resemble worms , but all are insects ( Arachnocampa and Orfelia being flies and all the others being beetles ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glowworm \Glow"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris ; esp., the wingless females and larv[ae] of the two European species ( L. noctiluca , and L. splendidula ), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. Like a glowworm ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly
Usage examples of glowworm.
And I have held converse with birds and fishes in their degree, and that generation which creepeth on the earth is not held in scorn by me, but oft talk I in sweet companionship with the eft of the pond, and the glowworm, and the lady-bird, and the pismire, and their kind, making them my little gossips.
Instantly, hundreds of the glowworms nearest to him on the cavern wall went out, leaving a large patch of blackness.
At the boom of the falling lump, half the glowworms went out and then slowly returned to their normal brightness.
The glowworms became fewer, so that in the increasing gloom Conan was forced to move warily, probing ahead of him with the stalactite lest he fall into some hole.
The glowworms were fewer here, forcing the Cimmerian to proceed cautiously.
Moreover, its color was not the emerald green of the glowworms but the neutral shades of ordinary daylight.
Her beam playing on the ceiling, showed that the glowworms had turned out their lights.
And out of the slaughterhouse he would charge into the tube and kill every legger he met, devour the jetfish, drag down the glowworms from the ceiling, rip them apart, eat them, eat the roots of the trees.
Along those lines my eyes had adjusted rather nicely over our extended stay in the cave to the meager light that the glowworms provided for us.
She specifically did not have the glowworms leech blood from the bruises, because his body would do that naturally after a number of days.
The spell she selected for repairing it took more time than the glowworms and cost her far more in terms of energy, but really just employed smaller, smarter versions of the glowworms to do the job.
She I'lpecifically did not have the glowworms leech blood from life bruises, because his body would do that naturally after ^ number of days.
The spell she so elected for repairing it took more time than the glowworms l^lind cost her far more in terms of energy, but really just Is.
A giant's head goggles down the passage, its empty sockets eerily lit by the glowworms that dwell within.