glowworm

[ gloh-wurm ]

/ ˈgloʊˌwɜrm /

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noun

the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.

any of various other beetle larvae or wingless females that emit a glow rather than a flash of light.

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Origin of glowworm

1300–50; Middle English. See glow, worm

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Although everybody laughed at such a notion, the Worm-eating Warbler declared that he had a right to his own belief.
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glow-worm

noun

a European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, the females and larvae of which bear luminescent organs producing a greenish light: family Lampyridae

any of various other beetles or larvae of the family Lampyridae