glow-worm

A form of glowworm — The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen.

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Meanings

nounglow-worm (plural glow-worms)

plural glow-worms

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of glowworm.

    One device obtained great admiration: small lights were scattered on the ground, in some of the winding paths of turf, to emulate glow-worms.

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 57–58
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