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lightning beetle

noun

Etymology

From lightning + beetle, because the insects glow; whence also firefly.

  1. inherited from *bitilô✻
  2. inherited from *bitilō✻
  3. inherited from bitula
  4. inherited from bitle
  5. compounded as lightning beetle — “lightning + beetle”

Definitions

  1. Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence

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