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Meanings of common glowworm in anglès

A firefly belonging to the Lampyris noctiluca species.

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        Examples for "glowworm"
        Examples for "glowworm"
        1
        Cap's cigarette shone like a glowworm in the shadow of the stack.
        Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University
        2
        It formed a queer spectacle, a glowworm creeping up on a bonfire.
        The Cruise of the Dry Dock
        3
        But a glowworm that lived in the cave made it all too bright.
        The City and the World and Other Stories
        4
        The light at the nape of his neck made a glowworm of him.
        The Cloister and the Hearth
        5
        It was no good-like trying to write by the light of a glowworm.
        I capture the castle
        1
        They're under threat by spiders and a white fungus that attacks glow worm pupae.
        Radio NZ
        2
        It was on the Glow Worm River at the Clip Claw Hills.
        The Translation of a Savage, Volume 3
        3
        The glow worms twist and writhe overhead, sending out phosphorescent mating light.
        The windup girl
        4
        They looked like two very luminous glow worms coming through the darkness.
        The Complete Jack the Ripper
        5
        Her body twitches and jerks in the light of glow worms.
        The windup girl