glowworm
nounEtymology
From Middle English glouworm; equivalent to glow + worm. Compare cognate German Glühwurm; compare also firefly, lightning bug, and lanternfly.
- inherited from glouworm
Definitions
The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or…
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.
- The glowworm shows the matin to be near And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me.
- 1604, William Alexander, The Alexandraean Tragedie, Act V, Scene 2, in The Monarchicke Tragedies, London: Ed. Blount, 1607, Some things afarre doe like the Glow-worme shine, That lookt to neere haue of that light no signe.
- Glories (like glowe-wormes) a farre off, shine bright, But look’d to neere, haue neither heate, nor light.
A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to…
A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.
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Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA