Usage of "common glow worm"

A firefly belonging to the Lampyris noctiluca species.

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Examples for "glowworm"

Cap's cigarette shone like a glowworm in the shadow of the stack. 
 Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University 

It formed a queer spectacle, a glowworm creeping up on a bonfire. 
 The Cruise of the Dry Dock 

But a glowworm that lived in the cave made it all too bright. 
 The City and the World and Other Stories 

The light at the nape of his neck made a glowworm of him. 
 The Cloister and the Hearth 

It was no good-like trying to write by the light of a glowworm. 
 I capture the castle 

They're under threat by spiders and a white fungus that attacks glow worm pupae. 
 Radio NZ 

It was on the Glow Worm River at the Clip Claw Hills. 
 The Translation of a Savage, Volume 3 

The glow worms twist and writhe overhead, sending out phosphorescent mating light. 
 The windup girl 

They looked like two very luminous glow worms coming through the darkness. 
 The Complete Jack the Ripper 

Her body twitches and jerks in the light of glow worms. 
 The windup girl 

Meanings of common glow worm in inglés