glowworm
IPA: gɫˈaʊwɝm
noun
- 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.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.
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Examples of "glowworm" in Sentences
- To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming in the grass;
- His enchanted forest is a field of hanging upside-down glowworm lights and Magritte umbrellas.
- Outside the walls, a human glowworm passed to and fro, this being the blur of pedestrian traffic.
- Once something like a foot-long glowworm crawled out of the shallows to dance and writhe near his feet.
- Your poetical pieces will do very well but the glowworm will remain at the top unless you can ever beat it.
- "They're just so roomy," an older dame decked out like a human glowworm declared, sneaking her head out to watch the new president's inaugural address.
- Ginger, bleeding badly, tracked the gun right through the glowworm incandescence of the Eotech sight and brought the gun right to bear on what of Bob he could see or sense, even while rising to his feet.
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