glowfly
Americannoun
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glowflies
plural
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He prowled about by Mrs. Coulter’s sleeping bag, scratching with a little horny finger at the occasional glowflies that settled in the cave and smearing their luminescence over the rock.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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